"Collection building is a skill. Successful collections demand intelligent responses to factors such as the needs of your reading community, the availability of materials and the size of your budget. Achieving this balance requires and understanding of people, a knowledge of new information formats, an ability to select the most relevant and useful items within given budget constraints. Collection Building is rapidly becoming regarded as an essential management tool for librarians and information professionals who are responsible for building and managing resource collections. When in the position of making the most cost-effective decisions when building and managing library collections, you will find Collection Building’s mix of practical and theoretical papers an invaluable asset."