Synopsis Collection management is not just book selection, acquisition, building the collection, and even collection development. During last few decades the library situations have been affected by social, economic, cultural and academic changes, the declining financial resources, technological innovations, changing needs and requirements of the user groups and access to wider resource base. The concept of collection management has emerged to cope with the new situations. It comprises management policy, principles and techniques, financial planning, evaluation and maintenance, cooperative collection management and electronic media. It has become an integral part of library management. This book is an exposition of current collection management principles and practices followed in large library situations. The book can be used as a guide to practising librarians and a text book for library science education.