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Peer reviewedAtkinson, Ross – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1988
This review of the 1987 literature on collection management covers (1) organization; (2) collection building; (3) collection and use evaluation; (4) cooperative collection development; (5) costs and budgeting; and (6) acquisitions. (185 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development, Library Cooperation, Library Material Selection
Peer reviewedAtkinson, Ross – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1990
Argues that preservation and collection development can be effectively coordinated only when the underlying political forces driving these two operations are defined and compared. The discussion explores some of the functions and values of preservation and collection development from a primarily political point of view in three contexts:…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Innovation, Library Collection Development
