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Collection Development Introduction

The purpose of collection development is to create a library collection that aligns with its mission, guiding decisions on material selection. Both library staff and the governing body share responsibilities in creating and implementing the collection development policy, ensuring it meets stakeholder needs. The governing body must approve and periodically review the policy to adapt to new challenges.

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Collection Development Introduction

The purpose of collection development is to create a library collection that aligns with its mission, guiding decisions on material selection. Both library staff and the governing body share responsibilities in creating and implementing the collection development policy, ensuring it meets stakeholder needs. The governing body must approve and periodically review the policy to adapt to new challenges.

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The Purpose of a Collection Development

The purpose of a collection development is to create a collection of library materials


that supports the library's mission

decisions about the kinds of materials to be collected or accessed should be made with
the mission statement in mind. For example, if an elementary school library's mission
is to support the curriculum, it will not be interested in collecting adult fiction.
However, if the library also has a mission to be a resource for teachers, it will collect
some professional materials on elementary education.

The collection development policy sets goals for the collection that reflect the library's
mission

The collection development provides information to the library's stakeholders about


how the collection is chosen, and it explains who is responsible for making decisions
about the collection.

Your collection development provides information for people who are interested in the
library's collection. These people include

 the staff who have responsibility for selecting and maintaining the collection
under the guidelines set by the parent body
 Responsibility for the Collection Development
 Both the staff and the parent body have responsibilities for creating a collection
development policy.
 The staff is responsible for providing information to the governing body about
the use of the collection and the kinds of requests that are being made from the
library's clientele.
 The staff may also do some of the footwork in finding out how other libraries
have responded to particular collection development problems.
 Once the policy has been approved by the governing body, the staff creates the
procedures necessary to implement the policy
 The Governing/parent Body's Responsibility
 The library's governing body may draft the policy itself or it may respond to
the staff's drafts of the policy.
 The governing body must consider the internal and external implications of the
policy for the library. It may want to check how the policy will affect major
stakeholder groups of the library,
 The governing body makes all final decisions about the policy.
 It must approve the policy before the policy goes into effect. After approving the
policy, the governing body should periodically review the policy so that it
addresses new issues as they arise.

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