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Collection Development and the College Library: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

Mickey Moskowitz (Director of Emerson College Library, in Boston, Massachusetts)

Collection Building

ISSN: 0160-4953

Article publication date: 1 March 1984

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Abstract

Collection development literature has burgeoned over the past decade, yet the complaint is still heard that college libraries are not engaged in meaningful collection development activities. College librarians often consider methods described in published research as too time‐consuming, technologically dependent, or statistically complex to apply to their own situations. How relevant is the literature to the practical needs of the collection developer? In addressing this question, a theoretical overview of collection development is presented, and recent publications reviewed, in terms of their relevance to collection planning, implementation, and evaluation in the small college library.

Citation

Moskowitz, M. (1984), "Collection Development and the College Library: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review", Collection Building, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023145

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1984, MCB UP Limited

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