A Collection Development Plan for Art and Art History at the University of South Florida

Art library collections at research universities: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative collection development

“…Through Powers' analysis, they compared the library's holdings to peer institutions in order to identify gaps, overlapping, and unique materials. 20 The authors of this article, however, did not have access to this tool nor had the capacity to systematically survey faculty in their respective schools and departments to see if the data was relevant to the collections at hand. Finally, although both collections fall under the Division of Libraries, there are no recent collection development guidelines in place for either library, and circulation statistics are gathered differently at both locations.…”