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Download full textJohnson-Blount, Theresa – 1990
This report presents the results of a study the objective of which was to determine how widespread automated acquisitions systems are in North Texas' Association of Higher Education (AHE) libraries and what the characteristics of these systems are. The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the paper and an…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Automation
Lonardo, Michael; And Others – Computers in Libraries, 1994
Special section includes two articles on academic library collection management: "Current Awareness: Acquisitions to Endusers" (Michael Lonardo and Dianne Taylor-Harding) describes methods for announcing recent library acquisitions to faculty; and "Book Acquisitions: A Purchasing System" (Ting Zheng and Joyce Huang) explains a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Automation
Peer reviewedCurzer, Howard J. – Journal of Information Ethics, 1996
Addresses the process of journal deselection from the point of view of justice and argues that when journal cuts are necessary, libraries should first, reduce all departments to core holdings; second, ask departments with expensive journals for permission to implement an efficiency principle; third, if refused permission, implement an equal…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Expenditures, Higher Education
Peer reviewedObiagwu, M. C. – Information Development, 1987
This discussion of the difficulties involved in acquiring materials for academic libraries in Nigeria uses statistics at one university to demonstrate the drop in foreign exchange based orders. Alternatives to overseas purchasing, including local purchasing, gifts and exchanges, and resource sharing programs, are also discussed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Higher Education, International Trade
Dole, Wanda V.; And Others – 1996
This document is an overall policy statement for library collection development for the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Part 1 comprises the library mission statement and a list of ongoing objectives. The second part provides some background information about the university environment and campus libraries. It also gives instructions…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
Dole, Wanda; And Others – 1996
In 1989, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) introduced a microcomputer-based evaluation tool called the Collection Analysis CD. In 1993, the SUNY Stony Brook Libraries used this tool to measure its collections against those of 27 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) peer libraries and of a "mythical" peer group. In 1996, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Consortia, Data Analysis
