Assessment of Library Collections in a Consortial Environment (eBook, PDF)

Experiences From Ohio
Redaktion: Lupone, George

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The work is a collection of articles on the assessment of library collections in a consortial environment. The authors assess collections from their own vantage points, considering such diverse factors as cost, regional depositories, book reviews, and faculty input.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317993780
• Artikelnr.: 57101062

Autorenporträt

George Lupone is Librarian Emeritus at Cleveland State University, serving as a consultant and engaging in professional service activities. Prior to his retirement, he was Associate Director at Cleveland State for many years, overseeing the assessment of library collections, services, and student learning outcomes using national standard instruments, focus groups, and local tools.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface
2. Do economic factors really matter in the assessment and retention of
electronic resources licensed at the library consortium level? Tom
Sanville
3. Playing the numbers: an exercise in complimentary cooperative
collection development Ruth R. Cornell
4. Assessment in a tight time frame: using readily available data to
evaluate your collection Alice Crosetto, Laura Kinner and Lucy Duhon
5. Managing collections between the chemists and the consortium:
assessment, engagement, and creativity Celeste Feather, James K.
Bracken and Jose Diaz
6. Comparing circulation rates of monographs and anthologies of literary
criticism: implications for cooperative collection development Ken
Irwin
7. Book reviews by the numbers Liz Johnson and Linda A. Brown
8. The importance of 'Focusness': focus groups as a means of collection
management assessment Fran Mentch, Barbara Strauss and Carol Zsulya
9. Ohio regional depositories: moving from warehousing separate
collections to servicing shared collections Phyllis O'Connor and
Melanie F. Smith
10. Collection development assessment for new collection development
librarians Richard Wisneski
11. The OhioLINK OCLC collection analysis project: a preliminary report
Anne T. Gilliland