TY - GEN AU - Collins, Judith AU - Finer, Ruth TI - National acquisition policies and systems: a comparative study of existing systems and possible models SN - 0-85350-185-8 PB - IFLA International Office for UAP KW - INFORMATION MANAGEMENT KW - ACQUISITIONS KW - INFORMATION POLICY KW - KW - NATIONAL POLICY N2 - Attempts to define and identify national acquisition policies and practices and describes the elements of both policies and systems which must be considered by national policy-makers. Current practices are described and used to derive a series of basic models of national acquisition policies and systems. The role of national libraries is discussed ER -