Free and Inexpensive Materials

Abstract

There's no such thing as free materials, you scoff. And rightly so. Every item added to a library's collection costs money in staff time and storage costs, if not in direct purchase price or postage. Free materials—like any others—are worth those costs if they enable you to better serve the library's clientele. If not, they are not worth the paper, celluloid or vinyl they're printed on.

Citation

Weibel, K. (1978), "Free and Inexpensive Materials", Collection Building, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023019