INFLUENCE OF COLLECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ON QUALITY ASSURANCE OF LIBRARY MATERIALS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Abstract

The collection management system is the term most commonly used to describe the area of librarianship that deals with collections of library materials. Collection management involves the development, storage, and preservation of culture property, as well as objects of contemporary, art, literature, technology, and documents in libraries, museums, archives and private collections. It incorporates the variety of functions involved in selecting, acquiring, storing and maintain collections in a cost-effective manner. There has been some challenges to the use of this term in a time when library collections” in corporate a great deal of content that is not physically owned by the library, but generally the term has retained its currency. Collection management needs to be distinguished from the related term of collection development’. A library and information centres, quality assurance involves all the processes, procedures and guidelines that ensure that all the activities are done as planned. Although the two terms may be used interchangeable in some of the library and information studies literature, collection development is usually considered to be a narrower function in that it specifically refers to that part of collection management in which librarians identify and select content (in whatever format) to be added to the collection

Keywords: Quality, Library, Collection, Management, Assurance