Electronic Brown Wrapper

[matthews pamela]

On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Burt, David wrote:

> Buying books on an approval plan, or buying 300 full-text magazines on a
> CD-ROM also involve letting a vendor do a certain amount of selection
> for the librarian.  There's nothing wrong with that. 

Actually, this full-text CD-ROM point is a good argument for *not*
installing filters.  After all, there are certainly journals in that batch
of 300 that your library's users don't want, need, or use -- but how many
libraries go through and block access to the included journals that don't
fit in with their collection development policies?  

			       Pam Matthews 
       	         Acquisitions/Technical Services Librarian
		      Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
	          University of Maryland Baltimore County
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		            pamatthe at gl.umbc.edu