Longevity of print book use at a small public university: a 30-year longitudinal study
Insights: The UKSG Journal, 2021 This research uses the circulation history of print books in the University of Prince Edward Island’s (UPEI) collection to measure the longevity of usage using three different categories: Becher-Biglan (BB), major subject and academic department.
Melissa Belvadi
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Integrating Circulated Technology into the Library Collection Development Plan [PDF]
, 2018 Academic libraries are increasingly focused on the acquisition and expansion of circulating technology collections. These collections are often governed by auxiliary library services such as Access Services or IT departments and not considered as part of
Ordinario, Neil
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Assessing the Fitness of an Academic Library for Doctoral Research
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2014 Objective – At the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), researchers compared how well the library collections supported doctoral research in the three related disciplines of education, psychology, and social welfare. The goal of this project was to
Susan Edwards, Lynn Jones
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Collection Development and the Value of the Library [PDF]
, 2011 This is a draft 2 of a discussion paper written for Boston University LibrariesDiscusses recent trends in scholarly communication and library collection ...
Ammerman, Jack
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LAYANAN BIBLIOMETRIKA UNTUK MEMUDAHKAN DALAM PENGEMBANGAN KOLEKSI DI PERPUSTAKAAN PERGURUAN TINGGI
Jurnal Pustaka Ilmiah, 2019 The library as an institution that has a function to support research within the academy needs to be more creative to create opportunities in service and collection development policies.
Asep Haikal Kurniawan
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Children's librarians, reviews, and collection development [PDF]
, 1993 In the 1990s, libraries are beginning to face the new demands of demographic and technological change. In this evolving context, a discussion of book reviewing and collection development can begin by examining the contemporary role of children's ...
Harrington, Janice N.
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Ideology Contestation in Management of University Library Development
JSW (Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo), 2019 Library collection development is mostly studied as professionalism based on a positivistic paradigm neglecting constructivist based paradigm. This constructivist base is reflected in various factors, such as ideology and commodification, which influence
Nurdin Laugu
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The Canadian Dollar versus the Collection: How Canadian University Libraries are Coping
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2017 Through 2015 and into 2016, Canadian academic libraries’ collections budgets were severely strained due to the steady decline of the CAD/USD exchange rate.
David R. Scott, Nicole Eva
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Collection Development of HIV/AIDS Information Resources in American Libraries [PDF]
, 2011 HIV/AIDS remains an incurable epidemic in the United States that disproportionately affects men who have sex with men (MSM) and African Americans. Library and information science (LIS) professionals can play a vital role in keeping these higher risk ...
Andrews, Joseph G, Jr
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The role of "open" in strategic library planning
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016 Academic libraries are undergoing evolutionary change as emerging technologies and new philosophies about how information is created, distributed, and shared have disrupted traditional operations and services.
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