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College and Research Libraries, 1984
Four papers present remarks concerning: (1) development of separate standards for archives, rare books, and manuscript collections; (2) impact of standards on administration of repositories; (3) factors relating to integrated management structures for special collections departments; and (4) relationships of manuscript collections, archives, and…
Descriptors: Archives, Cataloging, Library Administration, Library Collections
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Metz, Paul; Scott, Elizabeth A. – College and Research Libraries, 1981
Summarizes the development of a library staffing formula for Virginia academic libraries that meets resources constraints and accepted library standards. References are provided. (RAA)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographies, Higher Education, Library Administration
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Atkinson, Ross – College and Research Libraries, 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…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Guidelines, Library Administration, Library Collection Development