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This book entitled "Fundamental of Collection Development and Management" by Lawrence Abraham Gojeh and Tilahun Shiferaw Shibeshi is based on the syllabus for Collection Development and Management course taught to the students of B.SC (Information Science) of Universities. Our objective is to explain the fundamental concepts of Collection Development and Management in an easy-to-understand language as well as cover the syllabus for this course to meet the needs of the students. The subject requires very thorough study of the collection development policies, techniques and their applications in libraries and information centers. We have evoked our experiences in library and information services as well as academic field in bringing out this book to meet the needs of all students in library and information science and to those working in libraries and information centers. The book is divided into eight chapters and made user friendly by adding a very comprehensive index at the end. The index will be very handy for understanding as well as locating page numbers of major topics discussed in this book. In addition, a generous list of bibliography is also added.

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Lawrence Abraham Gojeh (PhD): Studied Library and Information Science at Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. He is an academic,educationist, Deputy Director and Pioneer Librarian of National Commission for Colleges of Education (COE). He coordinated all COEs libraries in Nigeria and now is an Associate Professor at Haramaya University in Ethiopia.

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