Music score approval plans in research libraries: A survey of librarian satisfaction with and without approval plans

Abstract

In this study, the researchers submitted a music score approval plan survey to all ARL libraries. Two surveys were created, one for libraries with music score approval plans, one for those without. Forty-four surveys were returned. The authors' purpose was to analyze and discuss the survey results, incorporating elements of the scholarly work preceding this study. Discussions, roundtables, and listservs participated in by music librarians over the years formed the basis of the topic at hand. The goal was to ascertain whether these discussions and underlying assumptions of approval plans held true to the real world.

Literature of Acquisitions in Review, 2008–9

“…19 They surveyed Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries with and without approval plans to determine their satisfaction levels. The consistent response was that the librarians were the ones to determine whether scores were part of an approval plan or whether they were ordered separately as firm orders.…”