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Before we get into finding new books and resources to ILL, lets talk about the three different kinds of research material out there, The Good, the OK and the Awful!



Good Research Material
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OK Research Material
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Awful (aka BAD) Research Material
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In the first two parts of this series, I wrote what should be in your library. Now I'm going to talk about what shouldn't be in your library.

There's this great concept I learned about in library school, and its called "Weeding".

Weeding is going through the collection and getting rid of books or resources that are no longer useful to you. Let's face it, sooner or later you WILL run out of bookshelf space, or places to put bookshelves. And really, are every last one of those books useful to you? Do you enjoy them? Are the books you love getting lost in the books you are just anti-pathetic about? Have you bought too many books that were mistakes?



In which case, its time to weed.




How to weed your personal library )


So, in summary:
1- Go through your book collection and figure out what you don't want anymore
2- Sell the books
3- Buy new books that you like




Next post in the series I'll cover how to find books that you like and the whole "try before you buy" concept approach to building a library of books that you love.
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OK, you've got your starter library, and you just want more books. Well, I've been there too, and here are my secondary recommendations... but first a public service announcement.

My book recommendations are what I find personally useful to a native English speaker with a limited amount of German. Plus I have a strong visual learner streak, so I tend to look at artwork a lot and go "ooooooh pretty/interesting/cool! How can I make that and make it look right?". So now that you know that, here are the recommendations for the add-on pack for the starter library.

You may think, "But these should have been in the starter library!" Ah, but my good friends for the low, LOW price of around $77 USD, plus shipping and handling you can have these in addition to the starter library!

(You see, that's how a addiction library is built, twenty bucks here, thirty bucks there, and the next thing you know, you have a lot of money invested into it and you need a new book case and your SO sees a new Amazon box and says "I see you got yourself another present....")

Add-on pack recommendations )
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Building a library on a particular topic can be expensive, just ask me! I've made plenty of buying mistakes and often wish that there had been someone to tell me how to get started in building a physical library around the topic of 16th century Germany specifically geared towards recreating clothing. Of course there are additional books I could recommend for more specific areas of interest, but for a general "Get you started" library, this would be a good start.

There are aslo lots of online resources for German clothing research, but I'll cover those in another post.

Total Cost for this library? Around $250 plus shipping and handling.
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