Guide for written collection policy statements

Part I. Role of the collection policy statement.1. Purposes of the guide

- 2. Need for a collection policy

- 3. values

Part II. Guide for the writing of collection policy statements. 1. principles governing formulation and application of collection policies

- 2. Elements of a collection policy statement

- 3. Introduction to the policy statement

- 4. General collectioon and development policies

- 5. Detailed analysis of subject collections

- 6. Conspectus approach

- 7. Narrative statement approach

- 8. Detailed analysis of special collections

- 9. Collection levels

- 10. Language codes

- 11. Indexes

Appendixes.