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Documenting International Psychology from 1929 to 2000 While this column is about a resource that is 'Off the Shelf' but not 'Onto the Web,' it is a wonderful recounting of [...]

This article reviews the last two-and-a-half decades of literature on acquiring out-of-print materials to assess recurring issues and identify changing practices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Data from the fifty-six titles examined qualitatively in the Patterson study are examined quantitatively. In addition to the four factors of edition, condition, dust jacket, and autograph that were hypothesized to influence the value of a book, four other factors for which information was available in the data were examined. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The methodology of collection development in collections of rare science books was examined historically. The use of various buying aids, particularly "lists" of great science books, was found to be a common, but not the sole, method of selection. Three lists frequently used are described, along with the collectors who compiled and used them and examples of other collectors who used the lists as well as other methods of selection. Selecting table d'hôte, i.e., from such set lists, instead of á la carte, is frowned upon in the rare book world; however this study demonstrates that lists of great books can be used appropriately as selection tools in collection building. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]