Even Harvard's needs are greater than the funds available, reports Sally F. Williams in "Budget Justification: Closing the Gap between Request and Result ." Library Resources and Technical Services28: 129-135 (1984).
2.
Charles B. Osburn, in the Journal of Academic Librarianship , May 1983, p. 95, reviewing Acguisition of Foreign Materials for U. S. Libraries, 2nd ed., conipiled and edited by Theodore Samore, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1982.
3.
From a speech quoted in Edwin E. Williams, The Farmington Plan Handbook. Bloomington, Indiana: Association of Research Libraries , 1953, p. 36.
4.
See Aslib Proceedings, 34 (11/12), (Nov/Dec 1982), for several papers presented at a conference on nonconventional literature in May 1982, especially Steven Vickers, "Grey Literature Worldwide: the UAP Programme," pp. 498-505.
5.
See Douglas W. Bryant's talk of 21 March 1974, reported in Harvard Library Bulletin23: 365-373 (1974), for his motivation in helping to found RLG. Harvard withdrew from RLG in 1978.
6.
An excellent article on the Conspectus by Nancy E. Gwinn and Paul H. Mosher, "Coordinating Collection Development: the RLG Conspectus," appeared in College & Research Libraries44: 128-140 (1983).
7.
Scott Bennett , in "Current Initiatives and Issues in Collection Management," JAL10:257-261 (1984) examines the extent to which cooperative activities are actually taking place.
8.
IFLA-Journal11(1): 62-63 (1985).
9.
Ray Bolan and Cecilia L. Shores , "Collecting Retrospective Materials from Developing Nations: A Cooperative Approach through Microforms," Library Acguisitions Practice and Theory6: 211-219 (1982).
10.
For an early history of SALALM, see Marietta Daniels Shepard, " Cooperative Acquisitions of Latin American Materials," LRTS13: 347-360 (1969). Current information is given in Basic Documents of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Inc. 3rd ed., rev., SALALM Secretariat, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981.
11.
An entertaining history of LACAP and its travelling agents is M.J. Savary, The Latin American Cooperative Acquisitions Program... An Imaginative Venture , New York: Hafner Publishing, 1968.
12.
Laura Gutierrez-Witt and Donald L. Gibbs, "Acquiring Latin American Books." LAPT6: 167-176 (1982).
13.
Maidel Casion , David L. Easterbrook, and Yvette Scheven, "Cooperative Acquisition of Africana: Past Performance and Future Direction," LA PT6: 221-231 (1982).
14.
From a paper delivered by David L. Easterbrook, "Africana Collections in the 1980s: A Reemergence of Cooperative Acquisitions," at the Third National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Seattle, Washington, 4-7 April 1984.
15.
At the Third ACRL Conference, Maidel Cason presented the paper, "Accountability in Cooperative Collection Development: The Elusive Ingredient." She emphasizes that cooperative acquisitions projects will be successful only if each institution is accountable to the group.
16.
Cason, Easterbrook, and Scheven, "Cooperative Acquisition of Africana."
17.
Recent articles on this subject include:
18.
Dorothy Anderson, "Waiting for Technology: An Overview of Bibliographic Services in the Third World," IFLA Journal9(4): 285-295 (1983).
19.
Thomas P. McGinn, "The Automation of Technical Services in Venezuela's National Library: Aspects of a Transfer of Library Technology," LRTS26 (1982): 170-176.
20.
Peter Moll, "Should the Third World Have Information Technology?" IFLA-Journal9(4): 296-308 (1983). Ziauddin Sardar, "Between GIN and TWIN: Meeting the Information Needs of the Third World ," Aslib Proceedings33 (2): 53-61 (Feb. 1981).
21.
Charles B. Osburn. "The Place of the Journal in the Scholarly Communications System," LRTS28: 315-324 (1984).
22.
Michael W. Albin, "Acquisition of Conference Proceedings from the Arab World," LAPT6:201-209 (1982).
23.
The frustrations of such searches are described by Erwin K. Welsch, "Some Aspects of Acquiring European Social Science Materials," in Acquisition of Foreign Materials for U. S. Libraries, compiled and edited by Theodore Samore, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1973, pp. 204-210.
24.
John Reidelbach and Gary M. Shirk, "Selecting an Approval Plan Vendor: A Step by Step Process," LAPT7: 115-122 (1983) also: "Selecting an Approval Plan Vendor II: Comparative Vendor Data ," LAPT8: 157-202 (1984).
25.
For descriptions of the problems of the African book trade, see: Eva-Maria Rathgeber, "Africana Acquisition Problems: The View from Both Sides," LAPT6: 137-148 (1982), also: Irmtraud-D. Wolcke-Renk. "Acquisition of African Literature: Problems and Challenges for Bookdealer and Librarian," IFLA-Journal10 (4):377-384 (1984).
26.
N.W. Posnett , "Factors Affecting the Accessibility of Nonconventional Literature for Use in the United Kingdom and Some Possible Solutions," LAPT8: 275-285 (1984). An excellent description of grey literature.
27.
John E. Woolston , "Information Exchange in a North-South Context: Is There More to Gain through Cooperation than in Trying to Establish New Markets? Aslib Proceedings36/1: 7-14 (Jan. 1984).
28.
G.T. Onadiran and R.W. Onadiran, "Building Library Collections in University Libraries in Nigeria," C&RL44: 358-367( 1983).
