Evidence for Removal of a Reference Collection in an Academic Health Sciences Library

Seale, Linda; Chatterley, Trish; Dorgan, Marlene

doi:10.18438/b8831n

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“…They followed this assessment with a yearlong study tracking the usage of what remained of their reference collection. With only 33% of their collection used, they transferred all of their reference books to the circulating stacks with the most highly used items assigned a four-day loan period [7].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Librarians who have evaluated both their print and online reference collections have noted that the use of e-books was significantly higher than their print counterparts, which is another factor that has led some libraries to move most of their reference materials to their circulating collections [5,7]. These trends make print reference collection development increasingly problematic and possibly redundant.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Restricted: Increasing Access to the Reference Collection

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Hochheim

2015

J Can Health Libr Assoc

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Introduction: The objective of this project was to determine whether or not a hospital library reference collection is still necessary or justified. Two academic hospital libraries moved all reference books to the general collection to see whether increased access to these materials would increase their use. Description: All reference books were updated to circulating status and shelved in the circulating collection. As these items were used, statistics were gathered in the integrated library system (ALMA).

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%