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Subject Librarians In The Changing Academic Library, Louise Feldman
Subject Librarians In The Changing Academic Library, Louise Feldman
E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)
Abstract
This article overviews the literature and key topics surrounding the role of subject librarianship in the evolving environment of academic libraries. Subject librarians are looked at in the context of the broad trends affecting librarianship and in the context of the traditional roles they have held in collection development, instruction, and reference. The author opened a discussion on this topic entitled, “Subject Librarians: Viable or Vanishing?” for the RUSA-CODES Dual Assignments Discussion Group at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio, Texas in January of 2006.
Assessing Library Collections Using Brief Test Methodology, Jennifer Benedetto Beals
Assessing Library Collections Using Brief Test Methodology, Jennifer Benedetto Beals
E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)
Abstract
The brief test methodology was developed by Howard White as an assessment tool to determine or verify the existing strength of a library collection. The relatively quick and inexpensive procedure utilizes the Research Libraries Group’s Conspectus levels, subject expertise, and cataloging records in WorldCat. In support of the University of Tennessee Libraries’ continuing efforts to encourage resource sharing with Information Alliance partners, I developed a project with art counterparts at the University of Kentucky and Vanderbilt University. Using brief tests, I completed an assessment of each institution’s collection in the subject area of African art. The results enabled us …