Library Acquisition Policies and Procedures

By Elizabeth Futas

This volume will help you acquire and manage a strong collection for your library, even when budgets are being cut. Topics covered include purchasing materials, formulating selection criteria, sharing materials with other institutions, and evaluating and preserving materials. This edition by the late Elizabeth Futas begins with the results of the author's survey of academic and public libraries. The author then explains how a sharply focused and clearly articulated collections development policy can assist libraries in providing the best possible service in the most cost-effective manner. These and other ideas, practices, and policies in this new edition will allow libraries to continue meeting the needs of their particular constituents, even in uncertain economic times.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897740246
• ISBN13: 9780897740241
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Oryx Pr
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.3"

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(Refers to 1st edition) Futas surveys and analyzes the acquisition policies for both academic and public libraries. Her introduction summarizes her methods and analyzes the results for about 250 responses to her questionnaire. Parts I and II publish the full acquisition policies for 12 public and 14 academic libraries. Part III publishes excerpts from other libraries' policies on goals and objectives, duplicates, special formats, gifts, loans, library consortia, censorship, confidentiality,and weeding. A second revised and expanded edition was published in 1984 by Oryx Press. A third revised edition was issued in 1995, also by Oryx Press, retitled "Collection development policies and procedures". It is instructive to compare Futas' approach in the last edition of this work with the initial survey 15 years earlier, represented by this first edition. Many more libraries participated in her final survey, but the results are presented more concisely. The late Elizabeth Futas, Ph.D., was a professor and director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

the best book every librarian must read and practice it.

The book has a vast potential for the practicing librarians. It gives the need and reasons for which every library should have a policy manual. It shoud be read and practiced by every librarian in the world.