Shipments are comprised of titles hand-selected by the vendors' professional bibliographers in accordance with detailed profiles. Once materials are received, they are placed on display for Librarians to review. The majority of titles are accepted and added to the collection. A small number are rejected for a variety of reasons and are either returned to the vendor or offered to other campus locations, depending on the agreement made with the vendor. Our profiles also identify a number of materials for which notification slips will be sent instead of books.
Slips provide detailed bibliographic information for each specific title.
These slips are also reviewed by Librarians and items may be ordered. Receipts generated from these orders are not a part of the approval plan. But analysis of these receipts by Collection Development may result in future adjustments to the approval plan profiles. This page was last updated May 13, 1998.