Open AccessCollections development of Maulana Azad Library (AMU) and Central Library of University of Delhi
Author(s) -
Shajarul Islam Khan,
Musheer Ahmad
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
brazilian journal of information science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1981-1640
DOI - 10.36311/1981-1640.2010.v4n2.01.p3
Subject(s) - collection development , library science , collections management , special collections , new delhi , digital collections , resource (disambiguation) , shared resource , political science , sociology , geography , computer science , archaeology , computer network , metropolitan area
The collections development includes planning for a systematic and rational construction of the general collection. The process includes several activities such as the user’s needs, evaluation of current collections, determination of a selection policy, management of selected items, analysis and storage of collection items incorporated into the planning and resource sharing. Thus the collections development isn't a singular activity, but a group of activities. Organizationally, academic libraries have at least two structured patterns for the collections development: centralized and decentralized systems. In a centralized collections development the full responsibility is of the central library, for the other hand the decentralized collections development are the responsibilities of the sector or department academic. This research was conducted to obtain an overview of the collections development in the Maulana Azad Library of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and in the Central Library of Delhi University (DU).