Collection management (Libraries) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 96002774: Collection management for the 21st century, 1997: introd. (Collection management includes budgeting and resource allocation, selection, weeding, storage services and facilites, preservation, conservation, binding, monitoring of collections, resource sharing and networking; collection development does not include storage services, preservation, monitoring)

ALA glossary, 1983 (a term used to refer specifically to the application of quantitative techniques (statistical analysis, cost-benefit studies, etc.) in collection development)

LC database, Sept. 5, 1996 (collection management; collections management)

Libn. gloss.