List of Book Selection Theories, Their Developer and Year of Origin

People	Theory / Name of the Book	Year
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey	The best reading for the largest number at the least cost	1906
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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