Collection Development Manual 2005
Circulating Collection Formats

Foreign Language Specialization Chinese and Russian Materials

Collection Goal: maintain collection size

Major Subclasses	Collecting Guidelines	Selection Sources	Weeding Guidelines	Action Items
Class as a whole	Funds to develop this collection primarily came from a $22,000 LSCA grant (1996) supplemented by local library funding and funding from the Andover Chinese Cultural Exchange The collection is maintained by local funding	Publishers Catalogs Book Stores Chinese and Russian newspapers and magazines Vendor lists	Weed by condition
Chinese Books Videos DVDs/VCDs Magazines Newspapers Music Art Prints	Collect mostly books, both fiction and nonfiction Collect popular films and TV series and widely read Chinese newspapers and magazines available in this country Collect mostly recorded music classics and folk songs in both CD and audiocassette format (begin to phase out cassettes) Collect modern Chinese prints	Booklist special sections Patron suggestions Katz Magazines for Libraries Other libraries' holdings
Russian Books Videos/DVDs Magazines Newspapers Music Art Prints	Collect mostly books, both fiction and nonfiction Collect popular films and widely read Russian newspapers and magazines available in this country Collect mostly recorded music classics and folk songs in both CD and audiocassette format(begin to phase out cassettes Collect modern Russian prints

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