Seminar G. Selling Books to Rare Book Librarians/ Buying Books from Antiquarian Dealers

Abstract

This seminar was sponsored the Bibliographical Society of America. Over the past two decades, the Internet and digitization have together changed the nature of rare book and special collections librarianship. This being said, antiquarian book dealers continue to sell very substantial amounts of rare and special collections material to research libraries, and the professional and social links between librarians and dealers, though changing, remain strong. In this RBMS preconference seminar, presenters will focus their talks on changes they have observed during their professional careers in the overlapping worlds of the dealer/librarian and of the antiquarian booktrade/research libraries.