Collection Development Manual 2009:
Circulating Collection

Overview, Selection, Maintenance, Formats

Collection Overview

• Purpose of the Manual
• Goals
• FY2005/2006 Action Items

Materials Selection

• Materials Selection Policy
• Responsibility for Selection
• Selection Sources
  • Standard Review Sources
  • Patron Title Requests/Staff Recommendations
  • Publishers' Catalogs
  • Subject Needs List/Missing Titles List/ILL Request List
  • Weeding/Mending
  • Bibliographies
  • Reserve Lists/Purchase Alerts/Other Reports
  • Reports
  • Advertisements
  • Gifts/Standing orders
  • New England Mobile Bookfair/Other Retail Outlets
  • Vendors/Sales Representatives
• Selection Criteria
  • Reviews
  • Examination
  • Authors
  • Formats
  • Date of publication
  • Series
  • Editions
  • Publishers
  • Price
  • Holdings
  • Demand
  • Local Authors
  • Andover Writers
  • Print on Demand Self Published
• Gifts
• Standing Orders
• Replacement Copies
• Patron Suggestions/Reserve Requests/Interlibrary Loan Requests
• Special Considerations
  • Curriculum Materials/Textbooks
  • Duplicate Copies/Bestseller Demand/To Go Browse Collections
  • Regional Responsibilities
  • Storage

  Statement of Concern about Library Resources

Collection Maintenance

• Mending
• General Weeding Policy
• Weeding Activity since 2001

Collection Formats

Adult Collection

Fiction

Nonfiction

• General Works  000-099
• Philosophy and Psychology 100-199
• Religion  200-299
• Social  Sciences  300-399
• Language and Linguistics  400-499
• Pure Sciences  500-599
• Applied Science and Technology  600-699
• Arts  700-799
• Literature  800-899
• History  900-999
• Biography
• Travel
• Large Print
• Periodicals and Newspapers

Nonprint

• Videos
• DVDs
• Recorded Music
• Audio Books
• eAudio
• Language Audio
• CD-ROMs
• Art

Mixed Collections

• Foreign Language Specialization/Chinese and Russian Materials
• ESL Materials
• Other Formats

Children's Collection

• Board Books
• Picture Books
• Beginning Readers
• Younger Fiction
• Fiction
• Graphic Novels
• Parent Browsing Shelf
• Nonfiction
• Reference and Online
• Biography
• Collective Biography
• Paperbacks
• Parents Shelf
• Magazines
• Videos
• DVDs
• Other Media
• Litkits

Young Adult Collection

• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Paperbacks
• Audio Books
• Music CDs
• CD-ROMs
• Magazines
• DVDs
• Graphic Novels