YBP Library Services is pleased to make available the YBP CORE 1000. YBP has developed, designed and implemented this service to aid academic libraries in assessing current collections and to allow smaller academic libraries the opportunity to benefit from participation with a seasoned vendor in collection development.

Each quarter year YBP will release a segment of the Core 1000 list that will include 250 titles. The Profiling Bibliographers at YBP select these titles for inclusion on the list. The selection process is complex. The profiling unit, which describes each title book-in-hand, will maintain lists of titles each quarter within the subject matter specialty assigned to that Profiler. Thereafter, the titles selected are carefully screened to identify major titles that will stand the test of time and be expected to be contained within good collections. The four quarterly lists of 250 titles will be combined in February and form the Core 1000 for that year.

Each year over 50,000 new titles are published that have relevance to the academic market. The YBP Core 1000 list is a valuable tool in assuring that essential titles are added to the collections. The skill, judgment, knowledge and experience of YBP's profiling bibliographers are the foundation upon which the Core 1000 is built. Thus, the intellectual honesty in describing titles, a proud YBP hallmark, will remain and neither publishers nor trends will influence the selection of titles for the benefit of academic libraries.