MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
COLLECTIONS DEVELOPMENT POLICY
WORKING DRAFT
November, 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
- COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT GOALS
- THE FRAMEWORK
- COLLECTION ASSESSMENT
- COLLECTION MAINTENANCE
- COLLECTION BUILDING
- SELECTION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS
- FORMAT STANDARDS
- SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF MATERIAL
- ALLOCATION OF FUNDS
- SUBJECT AREA PROFILES (SAMPLES)
- A and Z - GENERAL WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BOOK ARTS
- B-BD, BH-BJ - PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS
- BF - PSYCHOLOGY
- BL-BX - RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
- C-D - HISTORY AND CULTURE (EXCEPT NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA)
- E-F - THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAS
- G-GF - GEOGRAPHY
- GN-GV - ANTHROPOLOGY, FOLKLORE, CUSTOMS, RECREATION
- H-HJ - GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, ECONOMICS, COMMERCE, FINANCE
- HM-HX - SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNITIES, SOCIAL PATHOLOGY, SOCIALISM
- J - POLITICAL SCIENCE
- K - LAW
- L - EDUCATION
- M - MUSIC
- N - FINE ARTS
- P - PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
- PA - CLASSICAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
- PB-PM - MODERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, ORIENTAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, AMERICAN AND ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGES
- PN - LITERARY HISTORY
- PQ - ROMANCE LITERATURES, FRENCH, SPANISH
- PR-PS - ENGLISH LITERATURE
- PT-PZ - GERMANIC LITERATURE AND JUVENILE BELLE LETTRES
- Q - GENERAL SCIENCE
- QA - MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
- QB - ASTRONOMY
- QC - PHYSICS
- QD - CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
- QE - GEOSCIENCES
- QH,QK,QL,QM,QP,QR - BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY (QH-Biology; QK-Botany, QL-Zoology, QM-Human Physiology, QP-Physiology and QR-Microbiology)
- R - MEDICINE
- S - AGRICULTURE
- T - TECHNOLOGY
- U-V - MILITARY SCIENCE AND NAVAL SCIENCE