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.
www.lib.az.us/cdt/collman.aspx

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.
www.owlsweb.info/L4L/policies/sample.asp

CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries. Revised and updated by Jeanette Larson, Texas State Library and Archives Commissio.

This site offers a pdf of the CREW manual, which is the standard weeding guideline for most public libraries.
www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/crew

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

The Collection program in schools: concepts, practices and information sources.

Bishop, Kay.
Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Call number: 025.2 B6221c
Collection: LIS

Library collection development policies: school libraries and learning resource centers.

Hoffman, Frank W.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Call number: 025.21 H6991L
Collection LIS

Collection development for the school library media program: a beginner's guide.

Kerby, Mona.
Chicago, ILL. : American Association of School Libraries, c.2006.
Call number: 027.8 K392C
Collection: LIS

Less is more: a practical guide to weeding school library collections.

Baumbach, Donna J.
Chicago, Ill. : American Association of School Libraries, 2006.
Call number: 025.216 B3478
Collection: LIS

Selecting and managing electronic resources: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians.

Gregory, Vicki L.
New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2006
Call number: 025.284 G8221
Collection: LIS

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