Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
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Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)

around the world have had several constant values or beliefs about libraries: It is a physical place. It is a collection of what is deemed to be important information. It encourages reading and reading promotion. It organizes those materials and provides assistance in their use. It preserves the information for future users.
Collections have become ever-more expansive and inclusive in terms of appropriate content
R.R. Bowker provides the broadest range of “availability tools.” One such tool that you may know well is Books in Print¯ (BIP). A partner title, Global Books in Print¯, includes Australian, Canadian, U.S., U.K., New Zealand, and South African publications and, like BIP, it covers books, audio books, and video titles.
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“one that can be maintained without significant degradation over time”
Department/branch heads,