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Christiansen, Dorothy E.; And Others – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
Provides librarians and others with summary of types of methods available to determine extent to which books, journals, and other library materials are being used, highlighting circulation studies, survey of user opinions, document delivery tests, shelf availability studies, in-house use studies, and citation studies. Forty-four selected…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Library Collections, Library Materials
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Nisonger, Thomas E. – College and Research Libraries, 1982
This 93-item annotated bibliography concerning collection evaluation in academic libraries focuses on: (1) case studies of evaluation projects, (2) newly proposed techniques, (3) attempts to define adequacy in a collection, and (4) overviews of the evaluation process, all published from 1969 to the present. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Kerby, Ramona – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2002
Offers guidelines for weeding as part of school library collection development. Highlights include developing a weeding policy; and the CREW (Continuous Review Evaluation and Weeding) method, including reasons for weeding, scheduling, and guidelines for fiction and for nonfiction. (LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Fiction, Guidelines, Library Collections
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Kantor, Paul B. – RQ, 1981
Discusses the results of an analysis of the reference process in which behavioral outcomes were distinguished from the causal factors that inhibit the delivery of reference service. Data on reference services in 16 libraries are analyzed and presented in five figures and three tables. A 26-item reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Librarians, Library Collections, Library Research
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Nisonger, Thomas E. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1980
Examines the statistical results derived from a test of the Lopez method, a technique that offers a means to empirically evaluate the depth of a library collection in specific subject areas. (FM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographies, College Libraries, Evaluation Methods
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Sandler, Mark; Barling, Cathryn H. – Teaching Sociology, 1984
Sociology resources housed in the campus library potentially offer valuable support for a department's instructional efforts. Provided is a strategy for (1) evaluating an existing library collection; (2) correcting extant deficiencies; and (3) maintaining the balance and quality of the collection on an ongoing basis. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Information Sources, Library Administration
Marman, Edward – Library Administration and Management, 1995
Outlines a method for establishing a depreciated value of a library collection and includes an example of applying the formula for calculating depreciation. The method is based on the useful life of books, other print, and audio visual materials; their original cost; and on sampling subsets or sections of the collection. (JKP)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Books, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Kusnerz, Peggy Ann – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1983
Presents an overview of library collection evaluation techniques described in the literature--list-checking, quantitative analysis, use studies, and subject specialist review--and offers suggestions to the librarian for the application of these methods in an art library. Twenty-five references are provided. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Check Lists, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Morrill, Richard L. – Education Libraries, 1981
Discusses the problem of rising costs for serial subscriptions and declining purchasing power of education libraries, and describes three studies undertaken in a university library to obtain reliable data for recommending the continuation or cancellation of education periodical subscriptions. Eleven references are listed. (CHC)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
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Senkevitch, Judith J.; Sweetland, James H. – RQ, 1996
Describes a study that used the OCLC Online Union Catalog to identify those adult fiction books owned by the largest number of public libraries to determine whether a core collection of titles could be identified for use in evaluating adult fiction collections. Future research is recommended and a list of the top 99 titles is appended. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Methods, Fiction, Library Collection Development
Price, Joseph – Videodisc and Optical Disc, 1984
Discusses Library of Congress's critical need for a storage medium to preserve items and reduce space requirements and describes the library's previous applications of optical disk technology. Discussion of current print and nonprint optical disk pilot programs includes their scope, equipment used, and the matrix management employed for their…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society), Library Collections, Needs Assessment
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Nisonger, Thomas E. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
Using random selection of citations from journal articles, two specific permutations of the citation checking approach to university library collection evaluation are tested on political science collections in five university libraries in the Washington, D.C. area. The history of the citation checking approach is reviewed. Forty-three references…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citations (References), Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Mancall, Jacqueline C. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1982
Reviews the literature on the evaluation of library collections, discusses the research specifically on collection evaluation in school libraries, and draws attention to the types of studies that are needed in the school library media field. A 22-item reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: Books, Educational Resources, Evaluation Methods, Learning Resources Centers
Shabajee, Paul; Bollen, Johan; Luce, Rick; Weig, Eric – D-Lib Magazine, 2002
Includes four articles that discuss multimedia educational database systems and the use of metadata, including repurposing; the evaluation of digital library use that analyzes the retrieval habits of users; the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) and digital collection project; and the collection of the Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for…
Descriptors: Databases, Electronic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval
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Rice, Barbara A. – Library Trends, 1985
Addresses importance of online databases as part of library reference collection and focuses on bibliographic databases (ready reference, print versus online migration, bibliographic utilities); selection/evaluation of online databases (vendor selection, individual databases); full-text databases; numeric databases; end-user searching; and use of…
Descriptors: Databases, Evaluation Methods, Library Collection Development, Library Collections
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