The Collectors Weekly Answer Desk
(actually C&P Tel. operators, 1951)
How do you choose club and reference sites?
Our editors choose club and reference sites based on a mix of criteria, as described below. Please email us if you know of a really great site we’re missing. We’re not trying to build a comprehensive directory, but rather to highlight the sites we think will be of greatest informational value to our visitors.
Club website criteria:
- Is the club a non-profit organization with a consistent track record over the years?
- Does the club make its publications available online to non-members?
- Does the club promote learning by offering members and non-members alike detailed online reference information about a given collecting category?
- Does the club invite members and non-members to events, seminars and workshops?
Reference site criteria:
- Is the site deeply focused on a specific collecting area?
- Does it offer collectors a comprehensive content or a photographic database of items that can be used to learn about the collecting category?
- Does the site offer something collectors cannot find anywhere else? For example, PDFs of old catalogs; correspondence from someone associated with a particular collectible; a timeline tracking the evolution of a given collectible; etc.
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