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Peer reviewedLee, Hur-Li – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2003
This case study examines social influences in research libraries' collection development. It shows that individuals' ideologies and political agenda shape their impression of user needs and their decision making. The study also reveals how the institution's operating structures, campus politics of interdisciplinarity, personnel deployment, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Decision Making, Higher Education
Download full textSmith, Elizabeth H.; Barbour, Gordon; Cotter, Michael; Goering, Lawrence – 1997
This report is structured to educate East Carolina University about library materials preservation. The library-wide preservation program began at Joyner Library in 1993 with the organization of the Preservation and Conservation Department. The planning phase of the preservation program began in 1995 with the appointment of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Databases, Higher Education
