| This paper presents the growth and development of library collection at Ananda Ranga Pillai Library Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. It describes both the Print and Electronic collection development in the library and also discusses about the collection development policy adopted by the library and lists out the challenges in developing library collection, particularly in electronic and digital environment. The author also suggests the ways and means to adopt need based collection development policy which best suits for providing effective information services to the user's community via, Cooperative collection development and consortium with other institutions. |