Section III, “Gift Processing and Collection Development,” includes seven journal articles and one thesis written on the processing and management of library gifts. Bostic, Schenk, and Reid all review gift programs in academic libraries. Robinson uses the results of a survey to present a summary of gift policies and procedures in Tennessee libraries. Mielke conducted a study to determine the cost of adding gifts to her library, whereas Diodata and Diodata also organized a cost-effectiveness study involving gift books and circulation records. Sullenger’s thesis and an article by Stevens and Swenson examine gifts and serial processing. This section also contains four
journal articles and two book chapters that focus on the use of gifts for collection development.
Lane’s chapter “Acquisitions by Exchange and Gift,” fromAcquisition of Foreign Materials for U.S. Libraries(1973), was re-written by Kovacic nine years later for the second edition. Both authors discuss the roles of gifts and exchanges in collection development, although Lane focuses more on exchange programs. Mills explains how gifts affect collecting patterns in libraries in the South Pacific, whereas both Dole and Caswell focus their attention on specific aspects of gifts and collection building. DeBrower and Jones report on a project that uses an automated expert system and artificial intelligence to select gift materials for a library’s collection.