摘要：ALTHOUGH the usefulness of written policies for collection building is an article of faith among librarians, few libraries actually have such written policies, and fewer still revise them periodically. Consequently, there is a dearth of literature on how to go about the actual writing or revising of such a document. The Washington University School of Medicine Library recently revised and rewrote its acquisitions policy, and the committee charged with the task found so little in the literature on how to proceed that it decided to publish an account of its experiences, in the hope that others might find it useful.
