From: Reeta Sinha <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:00:45 -0700 > Thus librarians, > in deciding whether or not to purchase revised dissertations, are at a > significant disadvantage in lacking any detailed knowledge of this > kind that could lead them to make truly informed and discriminating > decisions. Instead, they have to rely on vague presumptions--if they > decline to include these books in their approval plans--that any > revisions made to the dissertations were merely cosmetic and > superficial in nature. That does not strike me as a way to make very > informed "consumer" purchases. I'm confident that the 'librarians' making decisions about 'revised dissertations', as defined by the vendor and/or publisher, are more informed than those making sweeping assumptions about all three (librarians, 'revised dissertations' and book vendors). Reeta Sinha, MPH, MSLS Informed Grocery-buyer, Former Grocer