Valuing collections

Do you need to have your collection valued? The following list of contacts and suggestions was compiled by Arlis/ANZ members.

Valuers
Check the list of Government approved valuers for the Cultural Gift Program. It is available here: http://www.arts.gov.au/tax_incentives/cgp (look in the top right section) and is updated regularly.

A larger library might have a valuation performed by the Australian Valuation Office.

Some resources
Cram, J. "Not an inexhaustible resource: valuation and depreciation of library collections". Australian Library Journal 46:4, p376-85. http://www.alia.org.au/~jcram/not_inexhaustible.html .

Horn, A., Epps, J., and Moncrieff, J. Financial Accounting and library collections: the bottom line (2006) http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/library-staff/publications/ahorn/Horn_Click061.pdf.

Valuation seminar papers/presentations from the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Meeting, James Cook University, Cairns, 8-9 September 2003.

Have you considered having a sample of the collection valued? It can be very expensive to have the entire collection valued and this maybe an option for some libraries.