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Written on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Last Updated on Thursday, January 08, 2009

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Chapter 5: Depository Collections
5.1 What's New
5.2 Building Your Depository Collection
5.3 Updating Selection Profiles
5.4 Dissemination of Electronic Online Titles
5.5 Tools to Help Select Items for Your Collection
5.6 Basic Collection
5.7 Suggested Core Collections
5.8 Essential Titles in Tangible Format
5.9 Additional Ways to Enhance Your Collection
5.10 Managing Your Depository Collection
5.11 Preservation and Disaster Preparedness
5.12 Withdrawal of a Gov't Product
5.13 Replacement of Depository Materials
5.14 Discarding Depository Materials
5.15 Depositories Cannot Financially Benefit
5.16 Secondary Copies/Duplicates
5.17 Substitution of Depository Materials
5.18 relinquishing Depository Status
5.19 Tips and Lessons Learned
5.20 You Don't Have to...
5.21 Important
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Details the scope and purpose of the depository collection, explains the importance of a collection development policy, describes item selection procedures, lists tools for building a depository collection, suggests additional ways to enhance a depository collection, discusses managing a depository collection, and describes the process for discarding depository material.