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Synopsis Acquisition in libraries is one of technical services, aims to develop and update the libraries collection of books and periodicals.  There are four stages in acquisition of books: (1) selection, (2) ordering, (3) accessioning and (4) payments. Each stage has several operations and recording procedure. Acquisitions and disposals policy: are those involved in teaching and research being involved at an early stage in both general and subject-specific aspects of library acquisitions policies.  This book is mainly devised with the sole intention to highlight main trends-conventional as well as modern-prevalent in library acquisition in global perspective.  Following are the main topics included herein-Fundamentals of Library Acquisition and Selection-Foundations of Collection Acquisition; Acquisition Under Contract; Interlibrary Loan; Library Acquisition Policy; A Model Draft; Automating Network Management and Compliance; The Management of Library and Information Services in the Institutions; National Library of Canada Collections Management Policy: Official Publications of Foreign governments (2002); Collection Management Policy of the National Library of Canada; Collection Development at the University Library; Ergonomic Circulation Desk: A Case Study; Resource Sharing in Transition; Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning; Library Copying for Its Own Collection; Library Reproduction: Patron Requests; Library Reproduction: Unsupervised Copying News Programs, and Cooperative Collection Management Program: A Case etc.