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	• Library Acquisition Policies and Procedures (A Neal-Schuman professional book) Elizabeth Futas Oryx Pr, 1984 - 504 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews
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the best book every librarian must read and practice it.

The book has a vast potential for the practicing librarians. It gives the need and reasons for which every library should have a policy manual. It shoud be read and practiced by every librarian in the world.

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(Refers to 1st edition) Futas surveys and analyzes the acquisition policies for both academic and public libraries. Her introduction summarizes her methods and analyzes the results for about 250 responses to her questionnaire. Parts I and II publish the full acquisition policies for 12 public and 14 academic libraries. Part III publishes excerpts from other libraries' policies on goals and objectives, duplicates, special formats, gifts, loans, library consortia, censorship, confidentiality,and weeding.

A second revised and expanded edition was published in 1984 by Oryx Press. A third revised edition was issued in 1995, also by Oryx Press, retitled "Collection development policies and procedures".

It is instructive to compare Futas' approach in the last edition of this work with the initial survey 15 years earlier, represented by this first edition. Many more libraries participated in her final survey, but the results are presented more concisely.

The late Elizabeth Futas, Ph.D., was a professor and director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

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