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Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries Interest Group

Charge

Forum for discussing the various collection development and collection management issues of concern to large research libraries and exchanging information on new developments, techniques, and problems in managing the development of library collections. Membership is limited.

Membership

Criteria

Open to all chief collection development officers of the first forty university libraries listed in the Association of Research Libraries annual statistical report. The basis for identification of the libraries is an average of the libraries' rank in all twelve categories in which the ARL prepares rank orders. The present determination will be based on the 1983/84 report and will be revised every four years (next revision in 2004). In addition, the five special libraries which are members of ARL will be members of the group. Revised July 1976.