Requirements for the library collection quality

The author understands the quality of products and services as the degree of proper characteristics correspondence to certain requirements. Requirements to the library collection (LC) quality are defined by consumers, founders and library patrons. The main consumer requirement is reliability and comfort use of documents from the stock, which is largely provided by the organization to its access. For the founder and library management it is important a reasonable combination of LC quality and cost-effectiveness for its maintenance and development. Target settings to provide collection quality are specified in the technological and economic demands to it: conformity of LC composition to its profile preassigned by the founder, completeness, reliability, and renewability of stocks. In addition, requirements generated at the society level are prior in assessing the LC quality. They are associated with the implementation of the cultural-saving, cultural-modeling, cultural-educational, cultural-forming and cultural-providing functions of LC and are expressed in the informational and documental completeness of its basic part. Only under such conditions LC becomes socially significant product of library production performing multiple roles in the society.

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