The process of up-keeping a collection, including organizing, adding, and removing materials. 

Collection Maintenance

Large databases that are usually subscribed to by an institution for patrons to use for information seeking. 

Index-Based Discovery Services

An institute's guidelines regarding how they acquire, upkeep and decide to remove items from their collection. 

Collection Policy

- User needs analysis
- Policies development
- Selection
- Acquisition
- Weeding
- Evaluation

Collection Development Process

Collection development is the process of building library materials of all types of media and further revising and acquiring that content. 

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- Information Behavior
- Information Technology
- Literacy
- Archives and Records
- Collection Development
- Library as Place
- Librarianship
- Material Types

Focuses of Library Science

A profession that is responsible for implementing library and information services. 

Librarianship

The study of how users interact with information in the library. There is an emphasis on how people seek, retrieve and utilize information.

Information Behavior in Library Science

Collection Development

The knowledge and skills needed for a specific activity or topic. There are multiple types of literacy including media, digital/technological, information, etc.

Literacy

The idea that libraries still function as an environment for teaching, learning and research despite advances in technology. Instead of becoming obsolete due to the accessibility of these new technologies, libraries should instead be the center of these advancements.

Library as Place

The use of computers to store and retrieve information

Information Technology (IT)

An archive is a collection of historical records about an organization and its society. These archives are managed by librarians, archivists, and other information professionals. 

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