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Retrospective Collection Development

The Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
The New Thought movement is the focus of an exercise in developing a core collection to support research in a defined subject area. The authors outline the New Thought movement's conceptual and historical development and apply this outline to the selection of library resources.
John T. Fenner, Audrey Fenner
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Developing Collecting Policies for Manuscript Collections

The American Archivist, 1984
Collecting policies should be a component of programs that seek to eliminate future problems, lessen competition, and provide an avenue for deaccessioning. Collecting policies can also assist the curator in fulfilling the mission of the manuscript collection, but guidelines for producing such policies have not yet been formulated.
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Collection development for government map collections

Government Publications Review. Part A, 1981
Abstract Of the maps produced worldwide 80% are published by government agencies. In developing a map collection the librarian faces problems very different from those involved in developing a documents or book collection. This article reviews those problems, and suggests a methodology for use in developing the map collection.
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Guerrilla Collection Development:

College & Undergraduate Libraries, 1995
In smaller libraries without a Collection Development Librarian, there is often little time for collection management. At such institutions, librariansmight consider guerrilla collection development: a series of time-saving tactics to get the job done. Although not an ideal approach, it might be a functional solution in the real world.
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Collection Development Decisions

The Serials Librarian, 2001
Abstract Nancy Cunningham presented a study, completed in 1997, evaluating the quality and usability of documents received via interlibrary loan and document delivery services, when compared with the original published articles. The primary focus was on the quality of reproduced illustrations in histology and microscopy, as determined by faculty in the
Nancy A. Cunningham, Sharon McCaslin
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Collection management and collection development policies

2018
Focus questions • What is the distinction between collection management and collection development? • What are the advantages and disadvantages of having written collection management and collection development policies? • How should such policies be affected by the increasing availability of electronic information?
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Collection development education

Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, 1993
Abstract This paper describes efforts by the library profession in Australia to improve the teaching of collection development, especially attempts to achieve greater articulation between professional practice and professional education at university level.
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Collection development—Evaluation

The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1996
Abstract This article argues for explicit evaluation of collection development and discusses means to accomplish that. Evaluating a library's collection is not an acceptable proxy for evaluating collection development.
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
exaly  

Collection overlap and coordinated collection development

The thesis addresses a fundamental question of library cooperation: how, in resource sharing library networks, information about collection overlap may help the academic library manager to make decisions about a library's involvement in coordinated collection development for monographs. To achieve the objectives of this thesis it was necessary to study
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