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Collection Development Policies and Procedures
Elizabeth Futas
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Description for Collection Development Policies and Procedures
Hardback. This text provides insights into the collection development policies of public and academic libraries, and describes the results of a nationwide survey on how libraries manage budgets and funding, use selection aids, and create and review collection development policies. Editor(s): Futas, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 602.
This volume will help you acquire and manage a strong collection for your library, even when budgets are being cut. Topics covered include purchasing materials, formulating selection criteria, sharing materials with other institutions, and evaluating and preserving materials. This edition by the late Elizabeth Futas begins with the results of the author's survey of academic and public libraries. The author then explains how a sharply focused and clearly articulated collections development policy can assist libraries in providing the best possible service in the most cost-effective manner. These and other ideas, practices, and policies in this new edition will allow libraries ... Read more
This volume will help you acquire and manage a strong collection for your library, even when budgets are being cut. Topics covered include purchasing materials, formulating selection criteria, sharing materials with other institutions, and evaluating and preserving materials. This edition by the late Elizabeth Futas begins with the results of the author's survey of academic and public libraries. The author then explains how a sharply focused and clearly articulated collections development policy can assist libraries in providing the best possible service in the most cost-effective manner. These and other ideas, practices, and policies in this new edition will allow libraries ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780897747974
SKU
V9780897747974
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Ref
99-5
About Elizabeth Futas
The late Elizabeth Futas, PhD, was a professor and director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Over the past 27 years, she had acquired a wide range of teaching and library experience, having served as reference librarian, cataloguer, and bibliographer at a variety of academic and public libraries, in addition ... Read more
Reviews for Collection Development Policies and Procedures
The book is physically attractive and, at $35, quite resonably priced. . . . [T]his volume, in the tradition of the two earlier editions, constitutes an important contribution to the collection development literature. The work will provide guidance to librarians who are writing or revising a collection development policy and will also be an especially valuable teaching tool.
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