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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.</abstract>
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    <keywords>acquisitions, policy, National Library of China, collection development, selection.</keywords>
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    <number>1</number>
    <pagerange>33-40</pagerange>
    <pubdom>FALSE</pubdom>
    <publication>Learned Publishing</publication>
    <publisher>ALPSP - The Association of Learned &amp; Professional Society Publishers</publisher>
    <refereed>TRUE</refereed>
    <referencetext>Bogart, Dave. (ed) The Bowker Annual: Library and Book Trade Almanac, 41st Edition New Provideuse: R.R.Bowker, 1996 558–559, 561
Jingzhong, Li. To raise the level of consciousness towards public library and to give full play to the functions of the different types of library. Beijing Library Periodical. 1996 (2)
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Degelolier, Ailike. Prospects of Library Science and Information Science – Legacy of Yuanwangnazan’s thoughts. Beijing Library Periodical. 1993 (1/2)
Britain 1996: an Oxford Handbook, prepared by the Central Office of Information, London. HMSO, 1995 475-476
Information Pleuse Almanac: Atlas &amp; Yearbook, 1996, 49th Edition, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996 731–732
McGreal, Ian P. (ed): Great Thinkers of the Western World. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992
Brown, Stuart. et al. (ed): Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers. London and New York, Routledge, 1996
Ximing, Cai. Discussion on the acquisition of publications of minor languages. Beijing Library Periodical 1995 (3–4)</referencetext>
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    <title>Western language books in the Beijing Library: criteria for acquisition and the method of selection</title>
    <volume>12</volume>
    <date_type>published</date_type>
    <date>1999</date>
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