Collection management is a core professional activity. These are pages will give you an insight into what can be involved and list resources that will help you in this work.
Collection management
is described as ‘the systematic management of the planning, composition, funding, evaluation and use of library collections over extended periods of time, in order to meet specific institutional objectives’. By C Jenkins and M Morley (eds), Collection management in academic libraries, Gower Publishing, 1999.
Collection Management includes the activities and policies of selection, acquisitions, assessment of user needs and usage, collection development, provision of access, maintenance, evaluation, preservation and weeding.
Updated: 12 February 2008