See also:

• Society: Issues: Intellectual Property: Free Access Theory: Journal Cost Issues  (10)

Collection Development Training for Arizona Public Libraries -  .

- Tutorials cover collection development policies, needs assessment, selection criteria, acquisition of materials, weeding, censorship issues, collection assessment, preservation and repair, and donated materials.

Acquiring International Documents - - Guide to acquiring international government documents. For a number of international bodies, provides contact information for both the official publisher and other vendors. Created and maintained by Chuck Eckman (Stanford University Libraries).

025.2 Acquisitions (AcqLink) - - Links to a variety of resources for acquisition librarians. Compiled by Catherine Nicholson as part of BUBL LINK (Libraries of Networked Knowledge). Includes general resources, discussion lists, electronic order forms, journals, services, library suppliers, censorship information, and news. Annotated.

Acquisitions and Collection Development Policies for Electronic Resources - - Draft and sample policies on 'collecting' electronic resources. These are drawn from a number of sources, including the ALA, the ARL, and several library consortia. They will prove helpful in designing your own library's collections management statement.

Acquisitions, Serials, and Collection Development - - This section of the Internet Public Library provides resources for Acquisitions, Serials, and Collection Development librarians. General resources section contains web sites that provide general information on or links to acquisitions, serials, and collection development resources. Book review services section offers links to book, cd-rom, software, movie and video review resources. Publishers' catalogs, serials management and book and serial exchange services, sources of foreign acquisitions, shipping and labelling tools, and currency conversion sites.

AcqWeb - - Directory of Web resources for acquisitions, collection development and serials librarians, and other book-buying professionals. Includes resources relating to library vendors and publishers; bibliographic verification tools; associations, journals, conference proceedings relating to acquisitions and collections development; and web reference resources useful in this area. Associated with ACQ-NET.

ALA/ACRL Standards and Guidelines - - This page is a portal to the various documents of standards available from the ACRL. While the scope of these documents are broad, many fall under the auspices of Collection Management; including Guidelines for Curriculum Materials Centers and Standards for Libraries in Higher Education.

Bellingham Public Schools Library Collection Management - - This public school system offers an extensively detailed application of the "Follet Library Management System." Last revised in 2004, this is a very comprehensive contemporary plan of a Elementary/Middle/High school system in Washington State.

CHOICE - Selection Policy - - Guidelines that Choice uses to select books for review in various subject areas. Many libraries rely on Choice without knowing what goes into the reviews. This helps clarify the process.

Globe Publication - - International subscription agency that provides a serial guides listing nearly 20,000 titles.

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library: General collections - - Welcome to the web site for the main library at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA USA), Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.

Kansas State University Libraries Collection Management - - Library subsection offers links to detailed policies and special projects such as serials reviews and preservation.

LibCopy Exchange - - Postings for library duplicate items.

Openly Informatics, Inc. - - Produces linking software for libraries, including the open-source jake link server and the LinkBaton hyperlink delivery service to allow for the acquisitions of e-documents and e-journals.

Principles For Licensing Electronic Resources - - "The intent of this document is two-fold: to guide libraries in negotiating license agreements for access to electronic resources, and to provide licensors with a sense of the issues of importance to libraries and their user communities in such negotiations." Presented collectively by the American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, and Special Libraries Association.

Rates of Participation by Faculty Book Selectors in a College Library - - Results of a study that traced how often classroom faculty at small academic institutions assisted in book buying for the library.

A Tool Kit for Collection Development and Management Librarians - - Includes resources relating to selection, acquisitions, collection management and preservation, electronic texts and websites, intellectual freedom, and related associations and conferences. Provided by Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo.

U.S. National Library of Medicine Collection Development Manual - - Collection Development Manual of the National Library of Medicin.

Web Feeds for Books and Monographs - - B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs is a categorized registry of sites that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds, to compilations, directories, lists, reviews, or other relevant sources for/or about academic or scholarly books or monographic works. B-Feeds(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011.