Cooperative Collection Development: The Northern California Experience

Abstract

As books and serials proliferate and their prices climb, acquisitions budgets remain static or decrease. One way to resolve the dilemma is a cooperative acquisitions program. The North Bay Cooperative Library System (NBCLS), a consortium of libraries in northern California, recently completed a two‐year project to jointly develop member libraries' book and serials collections. The goals were to stretch none‐too‐abundant funds by eliminating overlap in acquisitions and to increase the collections' bibliographic depth.

Citation

Pettos, W. (1989), "Cooperative Collection Development: The Northern California Experience", Collection Building, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023241