TI:   Western language books in the Beijing Library: criteria for acquisition and the method of selection. 
AU:   Ben-G 
SO:   Learned-Publishing. 12 1 Jan 1999, p.33-40. refs. 
PY:   1999 
LA:   English 
IS:   09531513 
BL:   5179.325650                                                           
BDS:  LISA:  Library-and-Information-Science-Abstracts 
DE:   Acquisitions-; Selection-4c-Foreign-language-materials; Policies-; National-libraries; China-; Beijing-Library 
AB:   Over the past 10 years, Beijing Library, the National Library of China, has added some 25,000 new books in western languages to its collection each year, and in 1997 had more than 1,388,000 books in these languages. Describes the library's selection criteria for the acquisition of foreign-language books, the information sources on publications used by the library, and plans to automate the acquisition and cataloguing processes. Article originally published, in Chinese, in the Journal of the National Library of China, Vol. 7, No. 1. JP 
CP:   (c)1999 Reed Business Information Ltd.  
AN:   3215881