Pattern of Collection Development in Academic Libraries in Andhra Pradesh: A Study

Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

“…Further-more, Thirumagal and Bremala (2014) found that 70% and 15.6% of library staff at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in India used the National Library and Information Services Infrastructures (N-LIST) to acquire e-journals and e-books respectively. Similarly, these findings are supported by Sasikala et al (2014) who noted that 44% of 18 university and college libraries in India acquired information resources through various professional associations and institutions (consortia). Moreover, Benny (2015) observed that 50% of library staff at Mumbai University in India used the consortia to acquire electronic-based information resources.…”

“…The findings revealed that a majority (88.6%) and (81.8%) of library staff respondents in studied libraries reported that their libraries acquired information resources through donation and gifts respectively. The use of donation, gifts and exchanges have also been observed by Sasikala et al (2014) who found that 33.3% of 18 universities and 16.7% of college libraries in India acquired library paper-based information resources through donation/gifts and exchanges. Many of the donation and gift resources are offered in print format and most of the time the resources may not be useful because they are outdated, contrary to a particular institution’s curriculum.…”

“…Selection of academic library information is the decision-making element of collection development processes and next follows the acquisition process, which only operates on the decisions made from the selection process (Sasikala et al, 2014). The existence of academic library resources is in the control of the selection process throughout their entire life cycle, not only in its presence and accessibility but in such decisive collection aspects as currency, accuracy, scope and format (Benny, 2015; Pitschmann, 2001).…”

“…They also include tools, such as publishers’ and electronic catalogues, trade bibliographies, guiding principles and procedures for assessment of current and potential user needs. Others are collection use studies, collection evaluation, identification of collection needs, selection and acquisition of hybrid materials, planning of resource sharing, collection maintenance and weeding (Sasikala et al, 2014).…”

Involvement of library users in collection development of hybrid academic libraries in Tanzania

“…Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License applied in collection development (Elder et al, 1990;Sasikala et al, 2014). The information personnel of the academic libraries are also urged to equip themselves with the best collection development techniques, tools, procedures and practices (Ifidon, 1990).…”