Saturday, March 31, 2001

Enrollment Limit: 30 people

Workshop Team:

Nancy Pistorius (Moderator), Humanities Collection Management Coordinator, General Library, University of New Mexico
Sarah Dickinson, Collections Librarian, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Marilyn Healey, Art Bibliographer, University of Georgia Libraries

Sponsors:

Collection Development Committee; Academic Library Division

Supported by Blackwell's Book Services

This workshop is wheelchair accessible

This workshop is intended to benefit all art library professionals who are responsible for acquisitions. Approval plans save time and facilitate the selection of current imprints. They can assist with collection building in public and university art libraries, art & design school libraries, and art museum libraries. Frequently asked questions include: What is involved in preparing an approval plan? How does a plan work? Are there selection criteria for choosing one plan over another?

Sarah Dickinson will present common elements of approval plans, review non-subject and subject parameters, cover geographic factors, and other profile considerations. Nancy Pistorius will review the various types of approval plans and approval plan vendors serving the visual arts. Marilyn Healey will present a case study on developing an approval plan profile and selecting a vendor.

Attendees will participate in exercises useful in developing approval plan profiles for their libraries. Participants should bring current collection development policy statements, mission statements, and course catalogs or photocopies of pertinent institutional programs.