Approval vendor selection - What's best practice?

Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 341-351

  Brown, Linda A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Acquisitions; Approval plans; Survey results; Vendor selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009181706     PISSN: 03646408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00055-6     Document Type: Article

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10. American Council on Education. "Earned Doctorates (and Intermediate Degrees) in Regionally Accredited American Universities and Colleges, 1975-89, by Institution and Year." American Universities and Colleges, 14th edition. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1992, pp. 1886-1893.
11. 1 = Not important; 2 = Slightly important; 3 = Somewhat important; 4 = Very important; 5 = Critical.
12. The author would like to acknowledge Bowling Green State University's Dean of Libraries and Learning Resources, Linda S. Dobb, for support of this research project and Nancy Boudreau, Associate Professor of Applied Statistics and Operations Research and the staff of the Statistical Consulting Center, for assistance with the data analysis.