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Re: Analog to Digital Query

Michael,

I can tell you my own experience in this area. I've been the 
director of the Fox Chase Cancer Center library for 19 years, and 
I know that we often sold print journal volumes to a bunch of 
dealers, whom I believe sold the volumes abroad or to other US 
libraries.  A Philadelphia dealer who is still in this business 
is Jay Butler of GH Arrow (http://www.gharrow.com/).  We used to 
send lists of titles to a variety of such vendors and they would 
bid on runs of interest to them.

We mostly sold these runs to make room for the new volumes.  Space was
a big issue until the advent of online journals.

Karen Albert, MLS, AHIP
Director of Library Services
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Phila., PA 19111
karenalbert48@gmail.com
karen.albert@fccc.edu


On 3/30/08, Michael Carroll <Carroll@law.villanova.edu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Can anyone point me to published articles, other resources, or
> even your own recollections about how libraries built and shared
> their collections of peer reviewed journals in the pre-digital
> era?
>
> I'm particularly interested in the question of whether the
> practical loss of libraries' first sale rights has had an impact
> on the circulation of this literature or its price.  (As you
> probably know, copyright law's first sale doctrine gives the
> purchaser of a copy the right to sell or lend that copy without
> having to ask the copyright owner's permission.  When a library
> licenses access to a publisher's database instead of purchasing
> copies, the library no longer owns copies that it can lend
> (through ILL) or sell in a market for used serials.)
>
> Specifically, was (and is) there a market for used, peer reviewed
> serials (bound or unbound)?  If so, I'm interested in the
> details.  Why would a library sell these?  (Owned more than one
> set?  No longer collecting in particular discipline?)  Who were
> the purchasers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michael W. Carroll
> Professor of Law
> Villanova University School of Law
> Villanova, PA 19085
> Research papers: http://law.bepress.com/michael_carroll
> http://ssrn.com/author=330326
> blog: http://www.carrollogos.org/