DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBRARY COLLECTION IN INFORMATION-DOCUMENTARY STRUCTURES OF ROMANIAN PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBRARY COLLECTION IN INFORMATION-DOCUMENTARY STRUCTURES OF ROMANIAN PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we propose to analyze the activities that lead to the development of the library collection (acquisition, selection, deselection, scrapping) in the info-documentary structures of the Romanian pre-university education. The development of library collections does not only mean an increase in the number of documents, but also involves the refreshment and continuous modernization of the collections. We can say, therefore, that the development of the library collections includes all the operations required to ensure the normal growth of the document collection, depending on the dynamics of the printing market, the size of the school library, as well as the constantly growing and changing documentation interests of the beneficiaries. The activities carried out in the school libraries or the Documentary Information Center for the development of the library collections, respect the general characteristic principles of any type of library, principles that refer to the actuality, universality, diversity, specialization and informational modernization of the collection. The development of collections in the info-documentary structures of pre-university education implies the same type of focus from the part of specialists on the interest for information of the beneficiaries as in all types of libraries - either public libraries or university libraries. The differences appear at establishing the criteria for developing the collections, as they are specific for the education system and for its financing and procurement procedures. The four library operations - selection, acquisition, deselection and disposal - are operations aimed on the same purpose: the renewal and permanent development of the documentary funds of the school library/ Documentary Information Center. By renewing and developing the collection in the school library, we aim to fulfill the objectives of the documentary policy, that are related to the clear identification of the users' documentary needs and to provide a complex documentary and informational resources to all categories of beneficiaries, in accordance with the library's mission and without discrimination. of reading requirements and practices.

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