JLIS abstracts

RAJHANSA (Vijaya)

RAJHANSA (Vijaya). Quality Control and its Implementation in Collection Development I Academic Libraries. 26,2;2001;158-67

The article stresses the need to perform the function of quality collection development as a management function and highlights various concepts and tools available for the acquisition. Librarian in academic library which will ensure quality collection development, viz., books selection models, budget allocation, use and user studies, half life of periodicals, obsolescence of literature, self-renewing library, weeding techniques, RLG conspectus, collection development policy.