Collection Building: Volume 36 Issue 1

The need of strategic – based measures for improving academic law libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: a viewpoint

Ghalib Khan, Rubina Bhatti, Amjid Khan, Rahim Jan

The purpose of this study is to suggest strategic-based measures for improving the current situation of academic law libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

GIS as a supporting instrument for making decisions about the library sources collection management

Roya Pournaghi

Nowadays, libraries are confronted with the growth of library collection, financial problems and lack of enough space. Hence, an organized and automatic system is needed to manage…

Training needs analysis based on mismatch between the acquired and required levels of collection management skills of academic librarians

Asad Khan, Mohamad Noorman Masrek

Training improves workers’ competencies by eliminating or reducing mismatch between the levels of acquired and required skills. However, the question of who needs the training can…

Collection development in UK university libraries

Stuart Hunt

The purpose of this paper is to highlight collection development activity in UK higher education libraries and to place it within both a conceptual and strategic context.