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"Collection Development
is a term which encompasses a number of activities related
to the development of the library collection, including the
determination and coordination of selection policy,
assessment of needs of users and potential users, collection
use studies, collection evaluation, identification of
collection needs, selection of materials, planning for
resource sharing, collection maintenance, and weeding."
ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science,
Chicago: American Library Association, 1983.
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"Collection development (also known as collection
management, materials management, or information resources
management) involves the identification, selection,
acquisition, and evaluation of library resources (e.g.,
print materials, audiovisual materials, and electronic
resources) for a community of users. While it is the goal of
collection development to meet the information needs of
everyone in a user community, this is not ever entirely
realized due to financial constraints, the diversity of user
information needs, and the vast amount of available
information. Nonetheless, public libraries strive to provide
the greatest number of library resources to meet the
information and recreational needs of the majority of their
user community, within the confines of fiscal realities."
http://www.lib.az.us/cdt/collman.aspx
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