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- Title
Gifts -- chance or disturbance within systematic acquisition?
- Authors
Babendreier, Jürgen
- Abstract
Libraries are business companies, which provide supporting services to ensure successful scientific and academic work. A librarian acts as homo oeconomicus in the sense that he precludes fortuity through systematic acquisition and rejects non-market products, i.e. gifts. However, since science does not obey to the rules of economy but trusts in coincidences, gifts may prove to be economically worthless but might open a chance to scientific discoveries.
- Subjects
LIBRARIES; LIBRARIANS; GIFTS; MANNERS &; customs; PUBLIC institutions; LIBRARY acquisitions; ACQUISITIONS librarians; ARCHIVE acquisitions
- Publication
Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 2006, Vol 30, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
0341-4183
- Publication type
Article