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Minnesota State Law Library, St. Paul. – 1996
This collection development plan of the Minnesota State Law Library includes detailed information on policies and annotations. After an overview of the Library's collection, general policy guidelines on the following are discussed: material selection; principles of selection; exclusions; gifts; interlibrary loan; cooperation; replacements;…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Law Libraries, Library Collection Development, Library Material Selection
Southeast Missouri State Univ., Cape Girardeau. – 1991
This guide serves as an academic departmental planning instrument and provides a description of the various collections, goals, and policies of Southeast Missouri State University's Kent Library. An overview provides information about the library's mission, funding sources and allocation procedures, departmental library liaisons, overall selection…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Departments, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education

Carrigan, Dennis P. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1996
Argues that evaluating a library's collection is not an acceptable substitute for evaluating the collection development process and its developers. With increasing materials costs, overselection can be much more serious than underselection. Several useful methods for evaluating collection development incorporate statistics regarding proportional…
Descriptors: Costs, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Information Technology
Murphy, Catherine – School Library Media Quarterly, 1987
Discusses aspects of collection management that can be supported by the use of online catalogs, including access to the collection, building library networks, and integrating circulation and acquisitions systems. The use of microcomputers as an alternative to online systems is explored, and a list of software packages is provided. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Interlibrary Loans, Learning Resources Centers