Politica achiziţiei şi managementul calităţii (I)
The Policy of Acquisition and the Management of Quality

Summary/Abstract: Considerring the library’s main purpose of preserving culture, we may say the it is an institution that is permanently adapting to the changes that may be observed on international plane, both on economic, political or social level. Total Quality Management (TQM), and its basic ideas are trying to elaborate an acquisition policy for libraries, on adequate bases. The acquisitions are dictated by the criteria of completing the collections; but before establishing any acquisition plan, an analisys of the collection, both on qualitatively and quantitatively criteria is absolutely necessary. There are some methods we should use in making this analisys, such as Conspectus Method, SWOT etc. Meanwhile, the readers expectancy may be considered as another main criteria and it may be highlighted by using Delphi Method, NGT Method. Lately, we may notice some attempts in order to avoid the economic negative problems of acquisitions; among them, we have to mention the libraries close cooperation, the creation of common data bases etc., all of them being prefigured by the Scandia Plan, Farmington Plan, NPAC Program. All these plans, programmes and tendencies that may be noticed lately are quite necessary, because they emphasise the quality of reading; it is important to read, but we have to pay attention on what we are reading.

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