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- Title
The Casalini Libri Approval Plan: Origins, Contexts and Future Prospects.
- Authors
Iorio, Maria Chiara
- Abstract
This article deals with the approval plan method of book acquisition and discusses one of the few Italian companies active in the cultural sector that has offered and provided this service for many years, enjoying huge success across the world, if only marginally in Italy. In preparing this study, the author has made valuable use not only of the existing literature on the subject, but of the opportunity to spend a period of time with in , where she was able to follow the different phases of the approval plan work flow, benefitting from first-hand explanations and clarification on the procedures, direct contact and conversations both with approval selectors and with the company directors. In order to provide a full overview of the topic, interviews were also held with various directors and heads of acquisitions and library systems of a number of Italian libraries. Conclusion is that approval plans are still today a highly valid acquisition method. Determining motives for which libraries turn to this method are not so much economic issues, although these must not be ignored, but are mainly social-cultural aspects including a greater international outlook and a widening of horizons within the academic institutions served by the libraries, as well as more meticulous planning by library authorities.
- Subjects
ITALY; LIBRARIES; LIBRARY cooperation; WORKFLOW; CORPORATE directors; CASALINI Libri SpA
- Publication
JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
2038-5366
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4403/jlis.it-9088