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This article discusses The Greenaway Plan, a contract plan worked out by the Free Library of Philadelphia with the J.B. Lippincott Company to receive before publication date one copy of each trade title published. At this time the Free Library has entered into agreements with a number of publishers and intends to continue as long as the publishers are willing to do so. This contract plan was designed to get new publications into the library for review purposes as far as ahead as publication date as possible. Public libraries for years have attempted to secure review copies of books prior to publication date in order to complete the library process as close to publication date as possible. From the publisher point of view, the number of duplicates order is of great interest, therefore the contract plan is only advantageous to them when the library can purchase multiple copies of a given title. Under the contract plan much paper work is eliminated. The reduction of clerical routine and elimination of time consuming problems saves money for the publisher. However much time is saved or cost of operation lowered, the test of the contract plan is whether new titles are being made available to the public more rapidly than previously.