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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Collection Development and Management Policy
http://staff.library.wisc.edu/colldev/selpage/collpol.htm
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT POLICY
Goals and Priorities:
The continued maintenance of quality library collections and the development of electronic information resources are
the primary goals of the UW-Madison libraries' mission to support teaching and research.
Principles of Collection Development and Management:
Access and Ownership: It is inappropriate to expect libraries to acquire and maintain all information resources.
Collaborative agreements among institutions to develop and share collection resources is fundamentally essential to
ensure broad access to all necessary scholarly resources.
Intellectual Freedom and Censorship: In selecting materials, librarians consider appropriate for inclusion all
information that is needed to support the educational mission of the University and do not exclude sources on the
basis of their origin, affiliation of the author(s), intellectual level, or view on current or historical issues.
Campuswide Coordination: To assure the prudent allocation and expenditure of monies for collections and other
information resources, campus libraries are viewed as a coordinated whole rather than individual or autonomous
entities developing collections without regard for need or duplication.
Collection Scope:
The UW-Madison librarians continue to acquire nearly all known formats of information, including print resources,
microformats, media, digital resources, software, and realia. Ideally, information resources will be acquired for the
University community at a level that meets the functional needs of each discipline. Yet the manner in which these
needs are met will vary due to differences in the types and intensity of information required by individuals and by
various disciplines. The finite nature of budgets will restrict the institution's ability to fulfill all information needs, and
institutional program priorities will also suggest priorities for developing collection resources.
Criteria for Acquiring and Licensing:
curriculum support
faculty research support
graduate student and academic staff research support
subject representation (representative materials on major trends in scholarship)
collaborative agreements with other academic libraries
maintenance of strong existing collections as deemed appropriate but only when possible without
compromising current curricular and research needs
Strategies for Acquiring and Licensing:
Although unprecedented increases in publishers' prices have occasioned annual serial cancellation projects,
long-established collection development and management strategies remain firmly in place to assure that locally
owned collections and access to other information resources meet faculty and student needs and expectations.
selection and purchase of new and out-of-print materials
access to information in electronic formats
preservation and maintenance of existing collections
cooperative and collaborative agreements with libraries within the UW-System and at peer institutions
(Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Center for Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries)
consortial purchases and licenses
collection enhancement through document delivery support
gift and exchange programs
Collection Preservation:
In order to maintain the University's collections for future use, the libraries' preservation programs routinely address
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Collection Development and Management Policy
http://staff.library.wisc.edu/colldev/selpage/collpol.htm
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT POLICY
Goals and Priorities:
The continued maintenance of quality library collections and the development of electronic information resources are
the primary goals of the UW-Madison libraries' mission to support teaching and research.
Principles of Collection Development and Management:
Access and Ownership: It is inappropriate to expect libraries to acquire and maintain all information resources.
Collaborative agreements among institutions to develop and share collection resources is fundamentally essential to
ensure broad access to all necessary scholarly resources.
Intellectual Freedom and Censorship: In selecting materials, librarians consider appropriate for inclusion all
information that is needed to support the educational mission of the University and do not exclude sources on the
basis of their origin, affiliation of the author(s), intellectual level, or view on current or historical issues.
Campuswide Coordination: To assure the prudent allocation and expenditure of monies for collections and other
information resources, campus libraries are viewed as a coordinated whole rather than individual or autonomous
entities developing collections without regard for need or duplication.
Collection Scope:
The UW-Madison librarians continue to acquire nearly all known formats of information, including print resources,
microformats, media, digital resources, software, and realia. Ideally, information resources will be acquired for the
University community at a level that meets the functional needs of each discipline. Yet the manner in which these
needs are met will vary due to differences in the types and intensity of information required by individuals and by
various disciplines. The finite nature of budgets will restrict the institution's ability to fulfill all information needs, and
institutional program priorities will also suggest priorities for developing collection resources.
Criteria for Acquiring and Licensing:
curriculum support
faculty research support
graduate student and academic staff research support
subject representation (representative materials on major trends in scholarship)
collaborative agreements with other academic libraries
maintenance of strong existing collections as deemed appropriate but only when possible without
compromising current curricular and research needs
Strategies for Acquiring and Licensing:
Although unprecedented increases in publishers' prices have occasioned annual serial cancellation projects,
long-established collection development and management strategies remain firmly in place to assure that locally
owned collections and access to other information resources meet faculty and student needs and expectations.
selection and purchase of new and out-of-print materials
access to information in electronic formats
preservation and maintenance of existing collections
cooperative and collaborative agreements with libraries within the UW-System and at peer institutions
(Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Center for Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries)
consortial purchases and licenses
collection enhancement through document delivery support
gift and exchange programs
Collection Preservation:
In order to maintain the University's collections for future use, the libraries' preservation programs routinely address
