Guide for written collection policy statements / Subcommittee to Revise the Guide for Written Collection Policy Statements, Administration of Collection Development Committee, Collection Management and Development Section, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services ; Joanne S. Anderson, editor.

Updated ed. of: Guide for written collection policy statements / Subcommittee on Guidelines for Collection Development, Collection Management and Development Committee, Resources Section, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association. 2nd ed. 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-36).

Print version record.

Part I. Role of the collection policy statement. 1. Purposes of the guide -- 2. Need for a collection policy -- 3. values -- Part II. Guide for the writing of collection policy statements. 1. principles governing formulation and application of collection policies -- 2. Elements of a collection policy statement -- 3. Introduction to the policy statement -- 4. General collectioon and development policies -- 5. Detailed analysis of subject collections -- 6. Conspectus approach -- 7. Narrative statement approach -- 8. Detailed analysis of special collections -- 9. Collection levels -- 10. Language codes -- 11. Indexes -- Appendixes.

English.

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