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Hello Everyone,
I have a quick question for those of you in library administration and/or
collection development. While we are still in a steep growth process here
at DCAD, we are trying to project our growth rate for a period of the next
5-6 years in order to do some long-range space and budget planning. My
question is, once acquisitions levels off, is there ever a point where the
loss rate through theft, loss, mutilation, weeding ever equal the
acquisitions rate of a library? How does one "stabilize" the size of a
collection?
Many thanks in advance for your responses.
Karen
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Karen Rege, Information Specialist
Delaware College of Art and Design
600 North Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
(302) 622-8867 x408 (M,W, F 9-1, T, Th 1-5)
(302) 622-8870 (fax)
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