A collection development policy for digital information resources?

From: The Australian Library Journal | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Library collections are, increasingly, hybrids of print and digital materials. This paper considers whether library collection development policies, whose 'golden age' in Australia was in the 1980s and 1990s, are still required for today's hybrid collections.

Introduction--the library collection development policy today

IN HER RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK, FUNDAMENTALS OF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND Management, Peggy Johnson provided a definition of a 'collection development policy' that would probably be broadly acceptable to most in the library and information profession: 

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