A pproval plans have been considered an efficient and cost-effective way for libraries to acquire books in large quantities across many disciplines. Through approval plans, vendors supply current imprints as well as notification slips or forms to libraries on the basis of selected publisher output, subject profiles, and nonsubject categories such as readership level, country of origin, and format. When combined, these factors determine the parameters for selecting titles within the approval plan. Approval plan profiles can be limited by any number of factors, including price, scope, format, audience, language, and publisher. Each approval plan's profile is carefully established by library subject specialists to meet the research, curricular, and learning needs of the library's users.If a library commits to purchase large quantities of books on approval, vendors may offer substantial discounts off the list price. Libraries also may have the option to return titles that they consider outside of the approval profile. Additional vendor services include shelf-ready services, such as cataloging, bar Approval Plan Profile Assessment in Two Large ARL Libraries

Four participants in the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Leadership Fellows program surveyed the 2004-2006 and 2007-2008 cohorts and the sponsoring library directors to ascertain the impact and the value of the program. The results of the survey show evidence that the program has had a significant impact on and has been of value to the program participants and the sponsoring ARL directors.

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Among U.S. college students, alcohol abuse, including binge-drinking, is an increasingly serious and pervasive problem. Student alcohol abuse can lead to societal and individual impacts, including "increasing rates of driving under the influence, unintentional injuries, and deaths, and a host of other social, psychological, and physiological problems". Discovering particular characteristics and patterns of communication during the college/university life stage may assist the design of more effective health promotion campaigns aimed at alcohol abuse prevention/cessation.Unfortunately, to date, interventions aimed at changing student behaviors and environmental facilitators have had limited success. In particular, little research has focused on understanding the nature of appeals targeting Hispanic/Latino students (e.g.). Such interventions may benefit from additional focus on increasing college students' social support reliance and/or on boosting their perceptions of self-efficacy and from further identification of specific appeals resonating with Hispanic/Latino students. The present study investigates students' ABOUT THE AUTHORThe research group behind this study focuses on science and health communication to the public and the applications of such communication to educational initiatives and health promotion campaigns. To date, their research has focused primarily on underserved populations, including senior adults and Hispanic/Latino groups in the Southwest United States. At various points in time, all the authors have been affiliated with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, designated by the federal government as a Hispanic-serving institution. The current study falls squarely within this focus.

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