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23 Trends L. Libr. Mgmt. & Tech. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/ttllmt23 and id is 1 raw text is: Vlume 23 )renis IN LAW LIBRARY MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY Edited by Pbip C. Berwick + For academic, firm, corporate, and government law librarians Submitted for Your Approval, Part I: A Little History of Approval Plans By EDWARD T. HART, Head of Technical Services, Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida D uring my thirteen-year career in academic law libraries acquisitions and collection development, my experiences with approval plans grew as approval plans evolved, taking advantage of web 2.0 features. The approval plans I worked with have spanned two libraries and three different vendors, and have gone from paper to electronic slips and from books in print to e-books. Approval plans are traditional ways for libraries to acquire monographs and are a service provided by book jobbers such as Yankee Book Peddler and Coutts Ingram. The plans let a library establish a profile with the parameters for the automatic purchase of books. Profiles are drafted to identify the subject areas of interest as well as non-subject parameters such as intended audience, format (ie. monograph, series, annual, etc.), and publishers. Approval plans come in two varieties: book plans and slip plans. (202)) I

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