Use the resources below to help you craft a collection development policy for your library and to help you find the tools for effective collection development.

Websites - Collection Development Policies. Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records.

This site provides an overview, discusses why collection development policies are important, includes elements of the collection development policy, tells how to write a collection development policy, and provides sample collection development policies on the web. http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/cdt/colldev.htm

Sample Library Policies for the Small Library. Compiled by the Small Library Committee of the Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians, 2nd Edition, Revised by David L. Polodna, 1999 Converted to HTML by OWLS and posted with permission.

One of the sample policies is a Materials Selection/Collection Development policy, which can be used as a template.
http://www.owls.lib.wi.us/info/3ps/policies/sample_policies.htm

Bibliography - These resources can be found at the state library and are available for interlibrary loan.

Collection development for a new century in the school library media center.
   Lukenbill, W. Bernard.
   Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
   Call Number: 025.218 L954
   Collection: LIS

Developing an outstanding core collection : a guide for libraries.
   Alabaster, Carol.
   Chicago : American Library Association, 2002.
   Call Number: 025.21 A316
   Collection: LIS

The impact of outsourcing and privatization on library services and management : a study for the American Library Association.
   Martin, Robert S.
   [Denton, Tex.] : Texas Woman's University, School of Library and Information Studies, 2000.
   Call Number: 025.02 M379
   Collection: LIS

Weeding guidelines.
   Gwinnett County Public Library.
[Gwinnett, Ga.] : Gwinnett County Public Library ; [Chicago, Ill.] : distributed by   Public Library Association, 1998.
   Call Number: 025.216 W394
   Collection: LIS-NC

Public library collection development in the information age.
   Stephens, Annabel.
   New York : Haworth Press, c1998.
   Call Number: 025.21 P976
   Collection: LIS

Library collection development policies : a reference and writers' handbook.
   Wood, Richard J. (Richard John).
   Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c1996.
   Call Number: 025.21 W878
   Collection: LIS

Emerging patterns of collection development in expanding resource sharing, electronic information and network environment.
   Lee, Sul H.
   New York : Haworth Press, c1996.
   Call Number: 025.21 E53
   Collection: LIS

Access, resource sharing, and collection development.
   Lee, Sul H.
   New York : Haworth Press, 1996.
   Call Number: 025.21 A169
   Collection: LIS

Reference and collection development on the Internet : a how-to-do-it manual.
   Thomsen, Elizabeth.
   New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c1996.
   Call Number: 004.67 I61tho
   Collection: LIS

The CREW method : expanded guidelines for collection evaluation and weeding for small and medium-sized public libraries.
   Boon, Belinda.
   Austin, Tex. : Texas State Library, 1995.
   Call Number: 025.218 B724
   Collection: LIS

Collection development and finance : a guide to strategic library-materials budgeting.
   Martin, Murray S.
   Chicago : American Library Association, 1995.
   Call Number: 025.2 M382
   Collection: LIS

Developing library and information center collections.
   Evans, G. Edward, 1937.
   Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
   Call Number: 025.2 E92
   Collection: LIS

Collection development policies and procedures.
   Futas, Elizabeth.
   Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1995.
   Call Number: 025.21 C697
   Collection: LIS