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| Lionel Roy McColvin | Demand and Supply Theory of Book Selection | 1925 |
| Francis Keese Wynkoop Drury | The Right Book to the Right Reader | 1930 |
| S. R. Ranganathan | Five Laws of Library Science | 1931 |
| Helen Elizabeth Haines | Living with Books: The Art of Book Selection | 1935 |
| Robert N. Broadus | Selecting Materials for Libraries | 1981 |
| Arthur Curley and Dorothy M. Broderick | Building Library Collections | 1985 |
| Peggy Johnson | Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management | 2004 |
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