B. Schatz, THE PREGNANT PAUSE - THE TIME BETWEEN PROFILING AN APPROVAL PLAN AND RECEIVING BOOKS, Library acquisitions. Practice and theory, 21(2), 1997, pp. 115-120
In the selection of a new approval plan vendor, most of the library's
attention is on pricing, selection procedures, publisher coverage, and
profiling. In most cases, less thought is given to what events will a
ctually take place between the time profiles are completed and books a
re shipped to the library, Decisions surrounding this time period can
make the difference between a successful and problematic approval plan
implementation. This article, developed by a bookseller, explores the
se issues and the options libraries have in the implementation phase o
f approval plans. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.