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Peer reviewedAtkinson, Ross – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Discusses collection development policy as means to express and systematize guidelines for collection building that fulfill three basic functions: the referential, the generative, the rhetorical. Division of policy into subject categories, and use of "collection levels" to rank the collection and collecting effort for each subject are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Guidelines, Library Administration, Library Collection Development
Peer reviewedAtkinson, Ross – Journal of Library Administration, 1993
Discussion of the decline in the purchasing power of academic libraries' acquisitions budgets focuses on why and how the acquisitions budget should be integrated into the broader library and institutional budgeting and planning process to help manage the costs of scholarly communication. Highlights include collection development and remodeling the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Costs, Higher Education
