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Circulation Scenarios: Or, Where Have All the New Books Gone?
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Johnson, Mary E. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1986
This analysis of the circulation records of books added to a psychiatric library from July 1983 through May 1985 reports the total number of books circulated, their number and percentage in specific subject areas, missing titles, and usage by in-house and off-site borrowers. Implications for future collection development are explained. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Books, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development, Library Surveys
Measures of Social Science Collection Development Costs and Their Relationship to Conspectus Standards: Size of the Literature as a Factor in Calculating Costs.
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Welsch, Erwin K. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1991
Discussion of the rising costs of academic library materials and their effects on collection development focuses on the social science collection. It is suggested that combining the numerical weights used by the Research Libraries Group Conspectus to evaluate subject collections with estimates of publication production and changes provides a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau among the Footnotes: Mapping Interdisciplinary Research in Social Science Citation Index.
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Herubel, Jean-Pierre V. M.; Buchanan, Anne L. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1994
Examination of citations indexed in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) reveals salient patterns which can be helpful in determining interdisciplinarity and/or disciplinarity. Collection development efforts can be enhanced by examination of citation patterns of published research related to a classical social science author such as Jean-Jacques…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Citation Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Establishing a Selection Process Model for an Ethnic Collection in a Prison Library.
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Haymann-Diaz, Barbara – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1989
Describes a study that examined the selection process used by two inmate/library assistants to develop Hispanic and African ethnic collections in a prison library. The findings of the study are used to develop a selection process model for the development of ethnic collections using the expertise of ethnic inmate/library assistants. (25…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Evaluation Criteria, Interviews, Library Collection Development
Coordinating Collection Development and Use: Psychology at the University of Florida Libraries.
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Shontz, David – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1991
Discusses collection coordination and development in academic libraries and describes collection development activities in the area of psychology at the University of Florida. Barriers to efficient collection development are addressed, including physical, organizational, and discipline-related problems; duplication studies are described; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Branch Libraries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Never Enough: Graduate Student Use of Journals-Citation Analysis of Social Work Theses.
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Thomas, Joy – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2000
Discussion of faculty's subscription demands at academic libraries focuses on an analysis of journal citations from a decade of social science theses at the library of California State University at Long Beach that was conducted to supply quantifiable data to support decisions for journal purchases, cancellations, and placement in storage.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citations (References), Decision Making, Higher Education