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This paper seeks to describe the Canadian Library Association's 2007 pre‐conference, Collections 2007: Reinvigorating Collection Development and Management.

This paper summarizes the various papers, describing actual collections practices in a variety of library and information center settings that made up the CLA Collections pre‐conference.

The paper finds that collections development activities in academic, public and special libraries are characterized by a diversity of approaches and methods.

This paper provides a brief summary of some of the practical approaches to collections building in a variety of library and information center settings.