Now everyone can enjoy images from Bancroft’s fabulous pictorial collections at home and help fund the Bancroft collections at the same time. The Bancroft Library recently formed a partnership with Zazzle.com, a Webbased business that reproduces images “on demand” for greeting cards, note cards, posters, T-shirts, and sweatshirts. The Bancroft Library entered into this partnership because Zazzle.com offers a unique opportunity to maximize mainstream public awareness of Bancroft’s outstanding collections and to generate revenue.
Zazzle.com delivers the vast reach of e-commerce on the Internet to The Bancroft Library. Partnering with a Web-based for-profit company is unusual for a library, but The Bancroft Library while very traditional is at the cutting edge of today’s technology. Recognizing the value of global Web traffic, other institutions such as the California State Library, the Hoover Institution, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have followed Bancroft’s example by becoming partners with Zazzle.com.
Zazzle.com’s proprietary software affords The Bancroft Library complete control over which images are offered and how they are marketed: Currently over 200 digitized images are licensed for use. The Bancroft Library receives a percentage of each sale without the burden of manufacturing, selling, handling, or providing service. Zazzle.com was chosen because of their state-of-the-art reproduction techniques, product quality, 24-hour shipment time, and exemplary track record.
Bancroftiana readers may access The Bancroft Library’s individual “Collections Gallery” at Zazzle.com by employing this link: http://bancroft.berkeley. edu/friends/zazzle.html. Using this link rather than proceeding directly to Zazzle allows The Bancroft Library to receive a higher royalty with no additional cost to the purchaser. It should be noted that Zazzle is a volume business, thus, prices are low for the quality provided. Additionally, images may be printed on seven different kinds of paper or canvas in almost any size desired from very small to as large as 52” by 78”. Reproductions of rare or historic images using high-end archival materials are excellently suited for framing. Additionally, the purchaser is not limited to only Bancroft images or those of other Special Collections. Customers can upload personal images; anything from family pictures to simple drawings. Once uploaded, a customer can design his own shirt, card, or poster. If the purchaser follows the link above, The Bancroft Library also will earn income on these sales.
The Bancroft Library welcomes your comments as potential consumers. Any suggestions to improve or to enhance the “Collections Gallery” at Zazzle will be appreciated. The Bancroft Library will be adding more images over time, but if there are images currently not available, let us know and they can be added to the list. Please contact us at bancref@library.berkeley.edu. We hope you will enjoy browsing Bancroft’s “Collections Gallery” at Zazzle.com.
—Connie Loarie
Chair, Friends Publications Committee
William T. Ranney. The Trapper’s Last Shot. This oil painting on canvas depicts a man on horseback, wearing buckskin clothing and holding a rifle, as he pauses to look over his left shoulder. Two Indians on horseback appear as faint figures to the left. This image, and many others are available for order as notecards and posters, with varying sizes and paper quality options.
Volume 123
Fall 2003
Table of Contents
Rare Pahlavi Texts Now at Bancroft
From the Director: A Bancroft Library for the 21st Century
Moving The Bancroft Library: 1950
Towards Estimating the Demand for California Wine: 1870–1920
Collecting Baedeker Travel Guides
Friends Annual Meeting: April 19, 2003
“A beautiful dream and vividly real” New Mark Twain Notebook, Letters, and Other Items
Bancroft Partners with Zazzle.com
Irving Stone’s Lust for Learning
The Bancroft Library–KQED Radio Lecture Series, 2003
Math Majors Chill with Rare Editions
