Note
- The Farmington Plan, a hallmark of cooperative collection development, was a national plan for collecting works published outside the United States. The initial proposal was conceived in 1942 when the Executive Committee of the Librarian’s Consultants, appointed by Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, met in Farmington, Connecticut. Sponsored by the America Research Libraries (ARL), libraries participating in the plan agreed to acquire materials in an assigned subject area. For more information see Ralph D. Wagner, A History of the Farmington Plan (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2002).