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Written on Tuesday, 18 November 2008
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Chapter 5: Depository Collections
5.1 What’s New or Important
5.2 Building Your Depository Collection
5.3 Updating Selection Profiles
5.4 Dissemination of Electronic Online Titles
5.5 Tools Available to Help You Select Items for Your Depository Collection
5.6 Basic Collection
5.7 Suggested Core Collections
5.8 Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper or Other Tangible Format
5.9 Additional Ways to Enhance Your Depository Collection
5.10 Managing Your Depository Collection
5.11 Preservation and Disaster Preparedness
5.12 Withdrawal of a Government Information Product from Your Depository Library
5.13 Replacement of Lost, Worn, or Damaged Depository Materials
5.14 Discarding Depository Materials
5.15 Your Depository Cannot Financially Benefit from the Sale, Transfer, or Disposal of Government Materials
5.16 Secondary Copies/Duplicates
5.17 Substitution of Depository Materials
5.18 Relinquishing Depository Status
5.19 Tips, Practical Advice, and Lessons Learned
5.20 Did you realize that you don't have to... ?
5.21 Important for Library Administrators
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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.