Collection Development Manual 2005
Circulating Collection Formats

Recorded Music CD, SC

Collection Goal: increase collection size for CDs; decrease collection size for cassettes

Major Subclasses	Collecting Guidelines	Selection Sources	Weeding Guidelines	Action Items
Class as a whole	Collect classical and non-classical recorded music No duplicates except CDs to Go	Billboard, Down Beat, Entertainment Weekly, Guitar Player, Rolling Stone, Sound and Vision, McCants Opera for Libraries, ALA Basic Music Library, Globe Thu Calendar and Fri CD reviews, B&T Alert, AEC Connoisseur, Amazon, BN, Allmusic.com, Classicstoday.com, CDHotlist.com, Andante.com, Afropop Worldwide, award nominations	Weed by condition and use. Replace high demand items.	Improve signage for parts of collection
CDs	Collect in all genres, styles, time periods, composers, performers. Do not add duplicate performances of classical music already on hand.
Cassettes	Keep existing collection but don't add new titles
Music DVDs	Includes operas, concerts, musicals.	Purchased by video librarian.
New formats	Just starting to buy SACD hybrid type which plays on both regular CD and SACD player
CDs to Go	Collect new titles for this browsing collection May buy some duplicates		May add to regular collection when no longer in high demand	Evaluate this new collection

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