I 1 2 3 /ACQUISITION POLICY AND LIBRARY HOLDINGS MAINTENANCE

 

Purpose
Education of acquisition officers aiming at formulating a purposeful and efficient acquisition activity.

Goals
- Learning about acquisition concepts applied in an advanced library practice.
- The concepts' application in practice.

Subjects
- Terms: selection of titles, building of library holdings, library holdings maintenance, acquisition policy, library holdings development, library holdings evaluation, use of library holdings
- Use of the terms in different types of libraries

Teaching Methods
Lectures in a traditional classroom

Reference Books
- Harrod's Librarians Glossary
- Duncan, M. C., Bonk W. J.: Building Library Collections,
Metuchen, 1969
- Evans, G. Edward: Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Englewood, Col., 2000

Lecturers: Gordana Ljubanovic and Jasmina Rackovic M.A.

Duration: 2 days (8 lectures)

Date: Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6, 2001

The course is intended for:
- librarians in all types of libraries dealing with acquisition and defining library holdings
- acquisition department managers
- library managers
- librarians dealing with organization of cultural-information programmes