Criteria for the acquisitions policy management: statistical study of the union serials catalog of the Valencia University

Abstract

One of the most important topics in libraries management, specially nowadays when library budgets have been blocked or shortened, is to set up a suitable acquisitions policy. This article aims, from a particular experience, to supply some information that allow to fix such an acquisitions policy. It analyses the Valencia University Serials Catalog, taking into account its growth throughout time, changes in titles distribution by the publishing country, in libraries and collections, always relating the whole collection to the current one, to conclude with a view of the collection distribution in knowledge areas, taking into account the number of students.