Description

Being a handbook for practicing librarians and a textbook for students and teachers with plenty of case studies, deals with collection development and its procedures and problems in general and identification, selection and acquisition of reading material in special libraries in particular including market analysis, demand forecasting and evolving collection development policy. The book takes a holistic look at collection development in special libraries and at the same time logically shows how collection development is related to collection management and evaluation. The case studies not only present lacunae in the system, but put forth suggestions to overcome problems.