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Tying Collection Development's Loose Ends With Interlibrary Loan, Margie Ruppel
Tying Collection Development's Loose Ends With Interlibrary Loan, Margie Ruppel
Margie Ruppel
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discover the characteristics and quality of interlibrary loan (ILL) titles, and determine whether purchasing ILL titles is a useful collection development method.
Design/methodology/approach - The study analyzed document containing 18,322 monographic education and psychology monographs borrowed by Southern Illinois University Carbondale patrons through I-Share, Illinois' statewide catalog, during the 2004 calendar year. Education and psychology books account for 574 of the 18,322 titles. The study located 132 reviews for 92 of the titles by searching PsycINFO and Education Abstracts. It recorded reviewer recommendation, publication date, publisher, source of review, and list …
Behavioral Citation Analysis: Toward Collection Enhancement For Users, Beth E. Fuchs, Cristina M. Thomsen, Randolph G. Bias, Donald G. Davis Jr.
Behavioral Citation Analysis: Toward Collection Enhancement For Users, Beth E. Fuchs, Cristina M. Thomsen, Randolph G. Bias, Donald G. Davis Jr.
Beth Fuchs
A pilot study was developed to determine use of the University of Texas at Austin General Libraries’ research collections in the fields of civil engineering and educational psychology and to investigate the research behavior of graduate students. First, the authors sampled bibliographic citations from dissertations completed during the years 1997 and 2002 in the above-named fields. Then, a survey was sent to the dissertation writers to gain insight into use and opinions of library services for their graduate research. Analysis of information provided by both collection- and user-centered data-gathering techniques serves to underscore the value of the merged evaluation methods.