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Direct linkAnderson, Craig; Pham, Jeanie – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2013
The increasing availability and prominence of e-books has led to a perception in some quarters that the requirement for physical books is decreasing, as most, or all scholarly material is openly available in digital form. Some academic administrators and librarians have suggested that it may be possible or desirable to have a solely, or…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Periodicals, Printed Materials
Taylor, Rhonda Harris; Patterson, Lotsee – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
This construct for collection development as it relates to Native American resources utilizes Thomas Mann's "Library Research Methods" (1993) concepts of the Traditional Model, the Actual-Practice Model, and the Principle of Least Effort to organize recommendations for both strategies and resources. The three-pronged hierarchical approach to…
Descriptors: Library Research, Research Methodology, American Indians, Library Services
Brown, Nancy; Cho, Yong-Ja – 1975
Faced with growing problems in the management and direction of its periodical collection, in 1973 the McLaughlin Library at the University of Guelph established a Periodical Use Committee responsible for collecting and analyzing statistics on the use of periodicals within the library. Specific responsibilities of the committee included deciding…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Collection Development
Peer reviewedPaine, F., Ed.; Paine, Nancy – Journalism Educator, 1987
Indicates that the (1) largest journalism libraries employ professional librarians, (2) size of acquisition budgets does not correlate with school enrollment, and (3) average library spends two-thirds of is budget on newspapers and periodicals and only one-third on books. Provides useful guidelines for designing a collection development policy for…
Descriptors: Journalism, Librarians, Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development
Kachel, Debra E. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1996
The Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) public library, which receives many school districts' interlibrary loan requests, experienced a 100% increase in periodical article requests. Working cooperatively, school and public librarians developed a LSCA Title II grant to study magazine usage to make cost-effective decisions about improving timely access…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Peer reviewedCooper, Michael D.; McGregor, George F. – Library Quarterly, 1994
Describes a method of cost-per-use analysis for individual journal articles to facilitate journal selection, deselection, and retention decisions. Conducted in a biotechnology library, the study was based on 491 users who requested more than 48,000 article photocopies over 3 years. Information on user behavior and journal use patterns is provided.…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Biotechnology, Comparative Analysis, Corporate Libraries
