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Improving Library Services For International Students, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Improving Library Services For International Students, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Grasselli Library
Inspired by the book, International Students and Academic Libraries: A Survey of Issues and Annotated Bibliography, we decided to investigate ways to improve library services for the international students at John Carroll University.
Is There Value In Value-Added Cataloging?, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Is There Value In Value-Added Cataloging?, Lauren Marshall, Mina Chercourt
Grasselli Library
We discuss a project they conducted to identify whether adding table of contents and analytics to certain materials in the collection would increase circulation. They selected monographic series in the Q classification that were titled separately and five or six large series in the Ps for analyzing. The work resulted in significant increases in circulation of the materials ( anywhere from 59% to 186%). The work was labor intensive, but the increased use of the materials made it certainly worthwhile.