Acquisition of library materials in academic libraries

Nabava građe i izgradnja fonda spada u najznačajnije dijelove knjižničnog poslovanja. Provedeno istraživanje imalo za cilj utvrditi način nabave građe i izgradnje fonda u visokoškolskim knjižnicama. Stoga su anketirani voditelji visokoškolskih knjižnica pri fakultetima i akademijama, sastavnicama Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Rezultati anketnog ispitivanja pokazali su da većina visokoškolskih knjižnica ne provodi aktivnu i sustavnu nabavnu politiku. Naime, većina visokoškolskih knjižnica nema osiguran određeni proračun koji služi za nabavu građe, nego ovise o odlukama uprava svojih ustanova. Nabava građe provodi se stihijski, zadovoljavajući trenutne zahtjeve i potrebe, kako studenata tako i znanstveno-nastavnog osoblja.Generally, acquistion and collection development is one of the most important functions of any library. The aim of this study is to describe acquisition and collection development in academic libraries. Therefore, the academic librarians of the University of Zagreb were surveyed. The results of this study have shown that an active collection development is not being planned and implemented. Most libraries have not got a defined budget which serves for acquisition of library materials so that they depend on understanding by administrations of their institutions. That is also the reason why the acquisition is performed spontaneously, meeting the present demands and needs both of students and scientific (academic) teaching stuff