"""Most of the great rarities in this huge treasure room are here
because of the conquests of my country's armies over a period of
several centuries,"" explained a European national librarian as he
guided me through his collections. I am certain that neither that librarian
nor anyone here would advocate this technique for blanket
book acquisitions, but what blanket ordering techniques are we using
and what do some of the critics think of these procedures for obtaining
the current publications that our readers and research workers
require?
Obviously, with the multiplicity of existing plans, it will be impossible
for me to touch upon more than a few. I have chosen, therefore,
to explore the blanket order system of the Library of Congress,
its All-the-Books Plan, the LC PL-480 Program and the Farmington
Plan, the Greenaway Plan, and the University Press Plan."
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Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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