Vol. 15 No. 3 (2019)
Artigos

Management of collections in public libraries

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  • Ana Claudia Carvalho de Miranda,
  • Maria Cleide Rodrigues Bernardino
Ana Claudia Carvalho de Miranda
Escola da Magistratura do Rio Grande do Norte
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Maria Cleide Rodrigues Bernardino
Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
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Published 2019-09-08

Keywords

  • Collection Formation. Collection Development Policy. Collection Development - Public Library.

How to Cite

Miranda, A. C. C. de, & Bernardino, M. C. R. (2019). Management of collections in public libraries. Revista Brasileira De Biblioteconomia E Documentação, 15(3), 71–93. Retrieved from https://rbbd.febab.org.br/rbbd/article/view/1194

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Abstract

It addresses views and concepts on collection development policy and the principles of collections, and highlights and explores new trends that contribute to the advancement and balanced growth of the collection in a public library. It has the objective of evidencing the management of collections in a public library, listing its processes and the relevance of the policy of formation and development of collections. It was structured based on a bibliographic and exploratory research and a qualitative design. It concludes that for a collection to be fully developed, a periodic evaluation is necessary and for this, it is necessary to elaborate a Collection Development Policy. It is also necessary that this activity be a continuous and evolutionary process that focuses on the informational needs of the user community.

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