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which an item will be used. Reference librarians are trained to
assist patrons without judging the patron's purpose in seeking
information, or the content of the information that the patron is
seeking.


Many public libraries routinely provide patrons with access
to materials not in their collections through the use of
bibliographic access tools and interlibrary loan programs.
Public libraries typically will assist patrons in obtaining
access to all materials except those that are illegal, even if
they do not collect those materials in their physical collection.
In order to provide this access, a librarian may attempt to find
material not included in the library's own collection in other
libraries in the system, through interlibrary loan, or through a
referral, perhaps to a government agency or a commercial
bookstore. Interlibrary loan is expensive, however, and is
therefore used infrequently.
Public librarians also apply professional standards to their
collection development practices. Public libraries generally
make material selection decisions and frame policies governing
collection development at the local level. Collection
development is a key subject in the curricula of Masters of
Library Science programs and is defined by certain practices. In
general, professional standards guide public librarians to build,
develop and create collections that have certain characteristics,
such as balance in its coverage and requisite and appropriate
quality. To this end, the goal of library collections is not
universal coverage, but rather to find those materials that would
be of the greatest direct benefit or interest to the community.
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