What is an
“Approval Plan”
An approval plan is an agreement whereby a vendor supplies books to libraries based on a pre- determined profile and budget.
It is a service for library assistance, which includes identification, selection and delivery of new material, in our case with the goal of contributing to the collection development for Latin American studies.
In order to achieve this, we have created a highly professional structure that enables us to access the whole publishing production of Argentina & Brazil, getting a total coverage in these countries.
How does an Approval Plan
Service work?
Operative stages of an
Approval Plan Service:
Identification: Every month, our experienced staff checks local ISBN records and establishes exchange agreements not only with academic and commercial publishers but with independent authors, non-profit institutions and governmental organizations. We also visit books fairs and regions that are distant from publishing centers, enabling an unsurpassable coverage.
Selection & analysis: The records for the purchased material are entered in our systems by the AP selector in order to be contrasted with the profile and mode that each library has previously chosen for the managing of their AP according to the topics of their interest and their budget possibilities.
Our software was specially designed to get as much information as possible so it allows us to do a very detailed analysis at the moment of selecting:
Avoids duplication: Identifies whether the book to be selected has been previously purchased by direct or standing orders.
Database checking: Automatically checks Worldcat database.
Catalogue delivery: with titles that have been selected but not sent to your library due to budgetary limitations.
Delivery and invoicing: After its approval, the material is placed in a box assigned exclusively to each library and sent regularly in amount of 21 titles with their corresponding invoice, imprint or PDF.
How can my library get an
Approval Plan Service:
Just get in contact with our company sending an e-mail to libreria@cambeiro.com.ar
Through the years he have got the necessary experience to develop an approval plan service enough flexible to adapt to the different necessities of each library.
That is why we can prepare a made-to-measure approval plan according to the specific interests of your collection considering criteria of academic level, topics and coverage areas.
• Quality criteria: We classify every material with a score from 1 to 10, according to our knowledge in relation to their academic quality and its relevance for the Latin American studies (prestige of the author, thematic, bibliography, publisher and extension are considered).
| AA |
High quality |
9 - 10 |
| AB |
Quality |
7 - 8 |
| AC |
Quality |
5 - 6 |
| BB |
Quality |
3 - 4 |
| CC |
Low quality |
1 - 2 |
• Thematic criteria: It gives us the possibility of designing your approval plan with one, several or all the topics that interest you.
• Partial coverage of specific geographic areas (only available for Brazilian regions): Your AP can include only the material published in one, several or all the regions that interest you.
We will supply to you detailed information about budgets, thematic, academic qualities and coverage areas of catalogued material during the previous year for Argentina & Brazil so you can decide the final structure of your AP.
What is the benefit of having an
Approval Plan Service?
The main benefit that libraries that decide to have an AP service achieve is to get an integral solution that considers their specific needs and contributes to the resources maximization whose global result intends a strategic development of their collections for Latin-American studies.
Libraries will get a comprehensive solution that fit their specific needs allowing them to obtain the material soon after being published, to reduce operating costs and to redirect resources to benefit the development of their collections.
Librería García Cambeiro relies on a scope of coverage that reaches all of the commercial and non-commercial publishers in Argentina and Brazil. This degree of coverage allows us
to ensure the shipment of serial publications, whether they be monographic series, journals, magazines, newspapers, or any other continuing resource.
Due to our network of publishing contacts, LGC also offers the possibility of acquiring missing issues of discontinued series or collections.
We have both recent and out-of-print publications at our disposal. We can search for and acquire specific titles published in Argentina and Brazil. Our extensive stock gives us access to many rare and out-of-print titles, including books and serial publications. We provide an immediate response to any request.
Firm orders can be sent by email to libreria@cambeiro.com.ar by mail or to P.O. Box 667658 - Miami, FL 33166 USA.
In the near future, registered clients on our website will be able to access our catalog directly and place orders online. Our system automatically detects duplicate orders that have already been processed for your library.
We also manage orders through EDIFACT.
