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Gifts for Libraries: Be Careful What You Wish For

Group: Library Courses | Instructor: Self-paced | Schedule: Open

From your own experience with gifts in a library, you may already be aware that there is both good news and bad news about gifts.

The good news about gifts to libraries is that they are many. The bad news is that only a small percentage of what is offered or given is likely to be what the library really wants or needs.

This course will pay special attention to those gifts that are intended to become part of the "stock" of the library. It will also deal with the elements of a complete gift policy and discuss the political and public relations implications involved with gifts.

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By participating in this course, you will learn about these topics:

Legal issues associated with gifts of all kinds
Monetary and other funding gifts
The special case of "special collections"
Gifts of materials for the collections
Gift policy and its essential elements
Criteria for evaluating gifts of materials for possible inclusion in the collections
The real cost of gifts
Processes for handling gifts efficiently and appropriately
Public relations and educational opportunities available when managing gifts appropriately