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Brief Tests of Collection Strength - A Methodology for All Types of Libraries (Hardcover, New)
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Brief Tests of Collection Strength - A Methodology for All Types of Libraries (Hardcover, New)
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For purposes of accreditation, resource sharing, and institutional
mission, librarians need to assess the strengths of their
collections in particular subject areas. This book describes and
illustrates a brief test for determining a library's collection
strength. Though such tests are most often employed in academic
libraries, the methodology outlined by the author should be useful
to all types of libraries in assessing the strength of their
holdings. In a time of increasing material and limited resources,
libraries need to be particularly judicious in deciding which works
to acquire. Oftentimes, a library seeks to develop strong holdings
in one or more subject areas. Such an approach is especially useful
for libraries that share their resources with other institutions.
To plan their acquisitions carefully and to be of greatest use to
other consortia members, a library needs to gauge the strength of
its holdings accurately. This volume describes and illustrates a
relatively brief test to assign libraries a score for existing
collection strength in a subject area. Drawing upon expert human
judgment and holdings data available from OCLC, the test can assist
librarians in setting and verifying collection levels on the RLG or
WLN Conspectus scales. Collection strength is often verified in a
labor-intensive fashion. The brief test presented by the author is
an economical alternative to the more typical labor-intensive
approach to collection analysis.
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