Book gifts have been a great source for collection building for any library. Traditionally, the process of evaluating the gift collection involved time, manpower and distance travelled to the donor premise.
This paper explored the use of digital photography as a tool in helping to evaluate the initiate part of the gift collection. With the proper photography tools, images taken can be used for assessment among a group of librarians or key-holders and also for brief bibliographic information creation, promoting and use of the accepted gift collections.
Source: David Bindle, Catherine Boden, (2011) “Enhancing gifts-in-kind assessment and processing with digital photography”, Collection Building, Vol. 30 Iss: 2, pp.94 – 97
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