A written policy statement is a necessary component of every library's collection development strategy. This work gives policy statements for all types and sizes of libraries and includes easy-to-use guidelines for preparing policies for co-operative arrangements, electronic collections and more.

Updated ed. of: Guide for written collection policy statements / Subcommittee on Guidelines for Collection Development, Collection Management and Development Committee, Resources Section, Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association. 2nd ed. 1989.

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.