Guidelines that Choice uses to select books for review in various subject areas. Many libraries rely on Choice without knowing what goes into the reviews. This helps clarify the process.
Directory of Web resources for acquisitions, collection development and serials librarians, and other book-buying professionals. Includes resources relating to library vendors and publishers; bibliographic verification tools; associations, journals, conference proceedings relating to acquisitions and collections development; and web reference resources useful in this area. Associated with ACQ-NET.
This page is a portal to the various documents of standards available from the ACRL. While the scope of these documents are broad, many fall under the auspices of Collection Management; including Guidelines for Curriculum Materials Centers and Standards for Libraries in Higher Education.
Produces linking software for libraries, including the open-source jake link server and the LinkBaton hyperlink delivery service to allow for the acquisitions of e-documents and e-journals.