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The Printed Book: Still In Need Of Ccd, Anna H. Perrault
The Printed Book: Still In Need Of Ccd, Anna H. Perrault
Anna H. Perrault
The present state of the printed book in the "national collection" or commons of resources owned by U.S. academic libraries is reviewed. The status of collecting of foreign language monographs is emphasized. The future of collecting printed materials is considered in the context of an international information commons and cooperation beyond the North American academic library community.
National Collecting Trends: Methods And Findings, Anna H. Perrault
National Collecting Trends: Methods And Findings, Anna H. Perrault
Anna H. Perrault
The primary focus of collection evaluation and assessment has been the subjective judgment of the strengths and weaknesses of library collections. The process has generally been a local application, often utilizing peer group comparative data. Quantitative collection analysis to support the subjective processes of collection evaluation and assessment is now almost universally conducted through extraction of data from local systems or network databases. National collecting patterns can be studied through the use of data extracted from the bibliographic utilities. This article examines the use of data from the OCLC/AMIGOS Collection Analysis CD and standard statistical series as a methodology for …
Study Confirms Increased Homogeneity In Academic Library Acquisitions, Anna H. Perrault
Study Confirms Increased Homogeneity In Academic Library Acquisitions, Anna H. Perrault
Anna H. Perrault
Article based on “The Changing Print Resource Base of Academic Libraries in the United States: A Comparison of Collection Patterns in Seventy-two ARL Academic Libraries of Non-serial Imprints for the Years 1985 and 1989, Ph.D. dissertation, The Florida State University, 1994. This research received the 1995 ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Reinventing Resource Sharing, Anna H. Perrault