Collection Development and Assessment in Health Sciences Libraries, Volume 4; Volume 1997Introduces and defines the documentation and decision making process in collection development, explores organizational models for collection development in health sciences libraries, and describes rationales and methodologies of assessing health sciences library collections. Also discusses the relationship of collection development and assessment to other library functions and addresses the budgeting process. Includes example policies and a glossary. For librarians in all types of health science libraries, and for use in library school classes in medical librarianship and collection development. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Roles and Relationships in Collection Development | 17 |
Education and Training for Collection Development | 33 |
Policies and Criteria | 55 |
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