Western language books in the Beijing Library: criteria for acquisition and the method of selection
(1999) Western language books in the Beijing Library: criteria for acquisition and the method of selection. Learned Publishing 12(1):pp. 33-40.
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Abstract
Each year, the National Library of China acquires about 20,000 English language books, about 2,000 each of German and French and a small number of Spanish, Italian and Romanian books. Books in other languages are acquired only occasionally and not on a regular basis.
As the library has limited funds for purchase, we have defined the principle of 'Completeness for Chinese books and essence for foreign language books'. We can only make a limited selection from countless foreign publications, to satisfy the needs of readers and, in addition, to reflect the characteristics of the collections. It is easy to imagine the difficulties involved with the task.
| Keywords: | acquisitions, policy, National Library of China, collection development, selection. |
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| Subjects: | D. Libraries as physical collections. > DB. National libraries. |
| ID Code: | 4395 |
| Deposited By: | Gu, Ben |
| Deposited On: | 03 August 2005 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.alpsp.org/volcont.htm |
| All fields: | Show all fields |
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