id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12474 Dobbyn, Margaret Approval Plan Purchasing in Perspective 1972-11-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 3097 164 59 17 In the meantime, while we wait for changes in values, attitudes, and behav- ior in order to effect institutional chan- ges,18 approval plans will continue to be a means of purchasing books for li- braries; library volume counts will con- tinue to escalate even though 50 to 75 percent of the books so purchased will be little or never used items.19 College and Research Libraries MARGARET DOBBYN Approval Plan Purchasing in Perspective Approval plan purchasing is related to library goals of comprehen- siveness, pointing out the interrelated pressures of the university sys- tem which have contributed to making this method of purchasing possible and the defensive techniques used to justify it. cache/crl-12474.pdf txt/crl-12474.txt