The Language of the Levels: Reflections on the Communication of Collection Development Policy,.

Atkinson, Ross

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Publication Date: 1986

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The Language of the Levels: Reflections on the Communication of Collection Development Policy,.

Atkinson, Ross

College and Research Libraries, v47 n2 p140-49 Mar 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 discussed. (32 references) (EJS)

Descriptors: Decision Making, Guidelines, Library Administration, Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Library Planning, Library Standards, Matrices, Policy

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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