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Alessi, Dana L. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Discusses the vendor's role in the library collection evaluation process. Vendor services are described, including catalogs, bibliographies, periodicals, and announcement services; the process required to produce a vendor publication is explained; and new online and CD-ROM collection assessment tools are described. (LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Library Automation, Library Collection Development, Online Systems
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Ferguson, Anthony W. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Discussion of collection assessment focuses on academic library experiences. Topics addressed include library accountability; funding shortages; barriers to collection assessment; strategies to aid in assessment, including adequate training and performance incentives; and implications of collection assessment for library budgets, including…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accountability, Budgets, Evaluation Methods
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Hawks, Carol Pitts – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes the role of automation in library acquisitions and serials departments in support of collection development. Highlights include workstations and expert systems; links to external databases; vendor services, including serials services and online review and selection of approval books; and automated access to collection development…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Databases, Expert Systems, Library Acquisition
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Houbeck, Robert L., Jr. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes a study of conservative and liberal journals that was conducted to determine whether academic libraries have been developing balanced collections in these areas. Issues of censorship and bias in collection development are discussed; and the influence of abstracting/indexing availability and journal age on selection are considered. (12…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Academic Libraries, Bias, Censorship
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Lynden, Frederick C. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes strategies that academic libraries can use to stretch the collection budget in the face of increasing costs. Collection management measures are discussed, including cancellations, coordinated buying, and cooperative databases; budgetary strategies are described; and political factors are considered, including faculty support,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Budgets, Costs
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Richards, Daniel T.; Prelec, Antonija – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Discusses serials cancellations; reviews library collection assessment policies and reasons for assessment studies; describes a survey of academic health sciences libraries that examined serials cancellation projects, including the decision-making process, regional or national cooperation, and the methodology used; and explains a generic serials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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Hanson, Roger K; And Others – Journal of Library Administration, 1991
This theme issue contains eight papers that were originally presented at a conference sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries on library acquisitions. Highlights include budgeting problems in academic libraries; maintaining research library collections; monograph collections in scientific libraries; vendors' perspectives; electronic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
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Hamaker, Charles A. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Discusses the use of library management data, particularly circulation data, in making selection decisions for library collection development based on experiences at Louisiana State University. Development of a collection based on actual use rather than perceived research needs is considered, and the decision-making process for serials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Higher Education, Library Administration
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Alexander, Adrian W.; Smith, James L. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes a survey of academic libraries that explored serials collection assessment. Highlights include serials budget allocations; serials cancellation projects; changes in ratio of allocation by subject area; use of computers for serials collection assessment; use of vendors, especially for statistics; and future plans for collection…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society)
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Okerson, Ann – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes problems facing academic libraries today concerning the amount of literature and information available, costs, copyright issues affecting ownership, and technological changes. Strategies for dealing with diminishing funds and increasing information resources are suggested, and activities at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Copyrights, Costs, Higher Education
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Hamaker, Charles A. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Describes measures of cost effectiveness that are useful for academic library collections, based on experiences at the Louisiana State University libraries. Highlights include circulation analysis of newly cataloged books; current periodical use compared to cost; faculty ranking of journals; and circulation patterns (i.e., use versus cost and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Higher Education
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Osburn, Charles B. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Discusses library collection evaluation and its relationship to the acquisitions budget. Topics addressed include the publishing industry; library services that are more user centered; acquisition of versus access to sources of information and knowledge; the concept of value; library accountability; objectives and setting priorities; and levels of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accountability, Budgets, Evaluation Methods
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Richards, Daniel T. – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Considers trends and influences that affect the relationship between libraries and vendors. Topics discussed include information in electronic formats; selection criteria; economic factors and library budgets; resource sharing and cooperative collection development; sociological changes; preservation activities; and the evaluation of dealers. (six…
Descriptors: Budgets, Criteria, Economic Factors, Electronic Libraries
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Downes, Robin N. – Journal of Library Administration, 1990
Discussion of access to information in academic libraries focuses on the effects information technology is having and will continue to have on libraries and on users. Topics discussed include electronic publishing; CD-ROM; cooperative collection development and resource sharing; library networks; internal bibliographic and processing systems;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Full Text Databases