User participation in collection building in a special library : a case study

Explains the background of the study, document selection procedure at ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) Library, analyses about 750 suggestions/indents for documents received during 1982 in the Library from about 200 users, examines the extent of user participation in collection building, enumerates probable reasons for low participation of users in collection development and finally concludes by suggesting some methods for improving user participation in collection building.