Standards: Challenges for Collection Development and Organisation *SURESH JANGE ** B.S. KADEMANI [Describes the role of standards affecting all walks of modern life as a basic foundation to ensure uniformity, reliability and excellence of a product, quality or service in order to achieve overall efficiency and economy of the nation. Collection development policy of standards has been discussed at length providing comprehensive list of secondary sources of standards and points out the role of Information Handling Service (IHS) -A solution for meting all types of standards both governmental and non- governmental standards; organisation, maintenance and control of standards to provide timely access to standards.] 1. Introduction Quality in what today's competitive society is forced to build for survival irrespective of its area being science and technology, industry, commerce, health and education right from manufacturing of a product, materials or service ranging common item of everyday use to extremely complicated equipments and components used in nuclear reactors. To achieve this, standards play a significant role, laying down minimum requirements for quality control and rationalisation of products to enhance their acceptability at national and international level which would serve as a base and guide to the manufacturer. Standards are basic foundation to many aspects of modern life used everyday - ranging from lawyer, engineer, multinational companies to ordinary man and Library is not an exception to it. Development of Colon Classification, Classified Catalogue code, staff formula by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan and International Standard Bibliographic Description, Common Communication Format (CCF), MARC Format, AACR-2 and international information systems like International Nuclear Information * Suresh Jange, Assistant Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P .B. No.8313, Deonar, Mumbai –400088 ** B. S.Kademani, Scientific Officer, Library & Information Services Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai -400 085