Systems for supporting libraries to acquire quality literature vary both from one country to another and in the freedom of choice allowed to individual libraries. In Norway and Sweden, for example, libraries really have no choice - they are told what they will get. The Finnish system is more liberal, but that does not mean it's popular. Money is made available to individual libraries, by the State, specifically to acquire books of their choice from the list. So far so good.
Most libraries think the system is good in principle.
But, of libraries questioned by Finnish Library Journal in a small sample poll, almost half think it works badly in practice. One problem is that the money is very little and is distributed according to a formula that disproportionately benefits smaller libraries. Bigger libraries tend to the view that the grant is insignificant and say that, at best, it only helps them buy more copies of books they have bought already. Two further practical criticisms are that the list is inevitably somewhat behind the times in content, and that it comes too late to influence acquisition decisions. As a matter of principle, many librarians would prefer just to be given the money and be trusted to make their own judgements - both about quality general and about what their own local client population wants to read.