Contents: Preface. 1. Distributors and vendors. 2. Fiscal management. 3. What is deselection? 4. Evaluation. 5. Cooperative collection development and resource sharing. 6. Protecting the collecting. 7. Legal issues. 8. Censorship, intellectual freedom and collection development. 9. Epilogue : the future of collection development. Index.

"The book underlines the importance of collection building in libraries and looks into its various phases, such as distributed vendors of books, resource sharing and cooperative collection building, legal issues, censorship, intellectual freedom and finally discusses its future.

In order to render the best possible library and information service to the clientale, the librarians have to make every possible effort to strengthen the library collection building in libraries in terms of its quality and quantity so that the effectiveness of the library use is maintained in all times to come.

The book "Collection Building in Libraries" gives wide outlines for working librarians to plan their job."