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Volume 97, Issue 4
1 July 1996
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Research Article| July 01 1996

Collection development in academic libraries: a Brazilian library’s experience Available to Purchase

Diva Andrade;
Diva Andrade
Librarian, Head of the Section of Acquisitions and Exchange of the Service of Libraries and Documentation of The Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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Waldomiro Vergueiro
Waldomiro Vergueiro
Professor in the Department of Librarianship and Documentation, School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a visiting researcher in the Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6909
Print ISSN: 0307-4803
© MCB UP Limited
1996
New Library World (1996) 97 (4): 15–24.
https://doi.org/10.1108/03074809610120171

Discusses collection development in academic libraries, using the practices of a Brazilian academic library as an example. Outlines several theoretical models for collection development provided by professional literature and chooses Evans’s model as a tool for the study. Concludes that the model is adequate for use in libraries in developing countries.

Keywords:
Academic libraries, Brazil, Collection management, Developing countries, Models
© MCB UP Limited
1996
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