...Its objective is to make sure that at least one copy of each new foreign book and pamphlet that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker in the United States will be acquired by an American library, promptly listed in the Union Catalogue at the Library of Congress, and made available...

...the Farmington Plan. The great question regarding the scope of the plan is how to define what 'might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker in the United States.' Debates on this subject are reported in Parts II and III of this Handbook, but no definition has been...

...Its objective is to make sure that at least one copy of each new foreign book and pamphlet that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker in the United States will be acquired by an American library, promptly listed in the Union Catalogue at the Library of Congress, and made available...

...Farmington Plan sought to make certain that at least one copy of every foreign book or pamphlet that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker in the United States would be acquired by an American library. To that end, each participating library agreed to accept...

..."Farmington Plan," a project to obtain at least one copy of "each new foreign book and pamphlet that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker in the United States" 4 as a means of building the national stock of such materials. The Farmington Plan itself was first...

...for loan or photographic reproduction. a library is expected to try to acquire everything "that might reasonably be expected to interest a research worker" in the United States. For the sixteen "subject responsibility" countries, however, dealers have been instructed not to supply...