Collection management is not just book selection, acquisition, building the collection, and even collection development. During last few decades the library situations have been affected by social, economic, cultural and academic changes, the declining financial resources, technological innovations, changing needs and requirements of the user groups and access to wider resource base. The concept of collection management has emerged to cope with the new situations. It comprises management policy, principles and techniques, financial planning, evaluation and maintenance, cooperative collection management and electronic media. It has become an integral part of library management. This book is an exposition of current collection management principles and practices followed in large library situations. The book can be used as a guide to practising librarians and a text book for library science education.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Piyush Kanti Mahapatra
Dr. Piyush Kanti Mahapatra has been teaching in the Department of Library Science, Calcutta University for more than three decades. He also long held the tenure of Head of the Department. His book, The Computer in Library Services (1985) was a pioneering work on the subject. He has written more than a dozen of books on Library and Information Science. Dr. Mahapatra is a member of FID and life member of several national associations. He is associated with a number of universities in various capacities. He was a member of the UGC Panel of Library and Information Science as well as the UGC Committee for Curriculum Development. He was the Chairman of the Calibnet Standardisation Committee, set up by NISSAT. He is the Library Secretary and member of the Council of the Asiatie Society, Calcutta, an institution of national importance. Dr. Mahapatra attended a number of international conferences and seminars and visited USA, UK, Canada, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and presented paper in FID General Assembly.
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