How will the focus on the collecting of non-blanket order materials that the Hoover Library currently acquires be maintained?
Curators in Green currently spend most of their work time selecting materials that are not covered by approval plans. This is expected not only to continue but also to be intensified for areas of the world where approval plans work. There are areas of the world in which bibliographic control and the book trade are not well organized (e.g, Africa, The Middle East, South Asia). In these areas, the judicious use of book dealers to gather material before the establishment or in lieu of bibliographic control as well as early warning of interesting and potentially desirable publishing projects in addition to individual title selection, has proven efficacious at other distinguished institutions.
