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Date:         Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:57:25 -0500
From:         Barbara Eastland - Library <eastland@HAL.MUHLBERG.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Exchange Vendor Inquiry

Marcia and others:

        I've had some limited contact with the Archival Resource
Company.  It is a local company, only minutes away from this college. In
their sales pitch to me I got the same information as you did.  They
offered to purchase our backruns and loose issues.  I put a list of
material (loose single issues of various titles) together and sent it to
them months ago as a trial effort.  I never heard a word from them again.
They probably won't hear from me again, either.

Cordially,
Barb

Barbara B. Eastland                     610-821-3561
Serials Manager                    FAX: 821-821-3511
Trexler Library                         eastland@muhlenberg.edu
Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew St.
Allentown  PA  18104

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Date:         Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:33:47 -0500
From:         Tracey Clarke <clarke@ABSOLUTE-INC.COM>
Subject:      Re: New Exchange Vendor Inquiry

Should we call ourselves a library exchange agency instead of backorder
service?

[From: Tracey Clarke <clarke@ABSOLUTE-INC.COM>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Marcia Trauernicht (716) 475-7292 wrote:

>           Recently another colleague and I met with a representative from the
>           Archival Resource Company.  This is a fairly new company based in
>           Pennsylvania that purchases all types of [print] materials from
>           libraries,  and then sells those materials to other libraries and
>           institutions.  According to their brochure,  they are "North
>           America's most comprehensive library exchange agency".
>
>           If anyone has done any business with this company,  I would be most
>           appreciative of any information and impressions concerning your
>           transactions with Archival Resource Company that you would be
>           willing to share with me.
>
>           I look forward to hearing from you!
>
>           Marcia Trauernicht
>           Head, Cataloging/Serials
>           Wallace Library
>           Rochester Institute of Technology
>           90 Lomb Memorial Drive
>           Rochester, NY  14623-5604
>           (716) 475-7292  OFFICE
>           (716) 475-6490  FAX
>           EMAIL: mstwml@rit.edu