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Casserly, Mary – 1984
This collection development policy serves as a planning tool for William Paterson College library decision-makers by providing information necessary for the allocation of funds for library materials. As a communications tool it provides guidelines for establishing priorities for the selection of library materials and criteria for the withdrawal of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Guidelines, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
Tanis, Norman E. – 1968
A four-part questionnaire was constructed and administered to the users of the Kansas State College Library to aid the library staff in planning for effective library service and in developing a book acquisition policy for the next ten years. The four surveys conducted were: (1) departmental, in which academic departments were asked to indicate…
Descriptors: College Libraries, College Students, Faculty, Graduate Students
DeVolder, Arthur L. – 1972
In order to gain information about what experiences limited-budget libraries have had with approval plans, a questionnaire was drafted to survey these libraries. The results of the questionnaire are presented in this paper. Twenty-four of the thirty-one libraries surveyed, responded. Responses to each of the questions asked are presented. In…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Acquisition, Library Material Selection, Library Planning

Moss, Carol E. – Catholic Library World, 1976
Stresses the vital importance of budgeting staff time for planning and previewing, to achieve the best possible shot at achieving media service goals, as well as budgeting dollars. (Author)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Library Acquisition, Library Collections, Library Material Selection
Harrison, Helen P. – 1973
This book is a practical guide to the formation and maintenance of film libraries--specifically newsfilm libraries. Developed in detail are the problems of staffing, layout, planning, economics, copyright, and especially film selection policies. Discussed are handling, storage, and preservation of film along with methods of recording the contents…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Cataloging, Film Libraries, Film Study

Mosher, Paul H.; Pankake, Marcia – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
Presents guide intended to aid librarians who are responsible for planning coordinated and cooperative collection development arrangements between libraries and suggests possible contexts, goals, methods, organization, effects, and processes to be investigated while establishing such programs. Benefits, problems, models, preconditions, and…
Descriptors: Consortia, Library Acquisition, Library Cooperation, Library Materials

RQ, 1979
Presents guidelines intended to assist those beginning local history collections, identifies factors that need to be resolved before the institution is committed to action, and assists those interested in creating local history programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Financial Policy, Guidelines, Library Acquisition, Library Collections

Osburn, C. B. – International Library Review, 1977
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Acquisition, Library Collections, Library Material Selection

Robinson, Harry, Jr. – Negro History Bulletin, 1973
Reviews the problems regarding quality selection of library materials in black studies. (DM)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Studies, College Libraries, Librarians
Christensen, Rosemary Ackley – 1975
Individuals, organizations, and American Indian tribes are recognizing that libraries and the information services which they offer are necessary to meet Indian goals. Although these goals may vary widely from improved access to education, cultural information, information on available social services, to leisure reading, they are all based in a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Evaluation Criteria, Guides, Information Needs

McPheron, William – College and Research Libraries, 1983
A formula for distributing monograph funds was developed within the University of Cincinnati Central Libraries System. Relying on a combination of objective data and professional judgment, the method employs a size-of-literature approach to the allocations process and incorporates need and enrollment factors. Eleven sources are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Libraries, Cost Estimates, Higher Education
Ettlinger, John R. T. – 1973
Canada has an especially difficult information problem since an enormous proportion of the publications required by Canadian researchers are produced in foreign countries. The attempt to solve this problem by a numerological or Farmington Plan approach is wrong both in theory and practice. This method emphasizes size and discounts selectivity.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Federal Aid, Library Acquisition, Library Collections
Sloan, Elaine – 1971
The major objective of this research study was to gather information about factors which influence collection development and selection decision making in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The user's judgement of the extent to which the collections met his needs is the only parameter of assessment. Museum curators, the bulk of whose time is…
Descriptors: Library Acquisition, Library Collections, Library Material Selection, Library Planning
Smith, Jessie Carney – Black World, 1971
Gives some historical highlights of the methods and philosophy of collecting black literature. Includes ten criteria for the selection of materials for a collection. (DM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature, Library Acquisition

Leimkuhler, Ferdinand F.; Cooper, Michael D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1971
Operations Research models of the acquisition and storage functions of a library are developed. Rules for selection of materials for a depository are analyzed and models of circulation interference and usage are explored. A generalized model of library costs and benefits is proposed. (11 references) (Author)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Library Acquisition, Library Circulation, Library Collections