This issue focuses on collection development and management in the rapidly emerging electronic environment. This Library Trends issue is composed of fourteen thoughtful articles, by sixteen authors, possessing solid credentials in librarianship or library and information science education. The authors variously draw on their professional experience, the published literature, and their own research. Several of the articles deal with selection, yet different aspects are covered and divergent viewpoints are presented by each author. This emphasis on selection undoubtedly reflects a number of factors.
Selection is the most basic collection development function that constitutes the process's core.
As the profession is presently in the relatively early stages of dealing with electronic resources, an initial emphasis on the most basic collection development function is to be expected. No one seems to dispute this point.