Refocusing a gift program in an academic library

Bishop, Janet; Smith, Patricia; Sugnet, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.lcats.2010.09.002

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“…Massey (2005) provided useful guidelines for handling gifts to an academic library so that they can easily be retrieved and the donor can see how the library is handling the donation. Bishop et al (2010) wrote about refocusing a gift program in Colorado State University Libraries. The libraries decided to eliminate their general gift program.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Gifts in Croatian public and academic libraries

Grgić

2011

Collection Building

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to provide information on handling gifts-in-kind in Croatian public and academic libraries. It also recommends what should be done to improve practice with gifts for collections. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is based on the author's research conducted using an anonymous online questionnaire that was sent to Croatian public libraries (n ¼ 139) and academic libraries (n ¼ 73) in May 2011. After a two-week period, a total of 84 responses was received (40 public libraries and 44 academic libraries). In statistical analysis, some variables are tested by x 2 -test to show whether differences between public and academic libraries are statistically significant. Findings -The majority of Croatian libraries do not have gift policy statements. Gifts do have a significant part in collection building, especially in Croatian academic libraries, but are not always handled in the right way (i.e. according to IFLA's guidelines). This paper shows the quantity of gifts in the libraries, librarians' reasons for not accepting some gifts, librarians' methods in dealing with gifts, and their way of communicating with donors or potential donors. Originality/value -This paper gives results of the first complete study of gift policies in Croatian public and academic libraries. In conclusion, a need for a written gift policy in Croatian libraries is emphasized and some recommendations are given.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gifts in Croatian public and academic libraries

Grgić

2011

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“…The Colorado State University Libraries disbanded their gift-in-kind donation program for all materials except special collections and archives materials. 7 The authors of a study of the Colorado State program, argued that, "in this environment, adding general gift books to a physical collection must be seen at best as a secondary or tertiary collecting strategy given limited resources, limited space, and the growing demand for access to electronic content." 8 Researchers who authored another study of New York State public, academic, and special libraries found that the majority of libraries surveyed still felt that gift-in-kind donations are valuable in serving the library's mission and community.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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“…7 The authors of a study of the Colorado State program, argued that, "in this environment, adding general gift books to a physical collection must be seen at best as a secondary or tertiary collecting strategy given limited resources, limited space, and the growing demand for access to electronic content." 8 Researchers who authored another study of New York State public, academic, and special libraries found that the majority of libraries surveyed still felt that gift-in-kind donations are valuable in serving the library's mission and community. 9 At the University of Florida, a re-examination of collection development and acquisition policies and practices led to limiting just-in-case collection development to the library's preeminent collections, such as the University of Florida's Latin America and Florida History collections.…”

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Using the WorldCat API to Develop Data-Driven Decision-Making for Gifts-in-Kind

Swanson¹,

White²

2019

LRTS

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In practice, evaluation and acceptance of books donated to a library (gifts-in-kind) often lack the same data-driven decision-making that libraries apply to purchased materials. Factors of “specialness” or “uniqueness” that are important components of why libraries still seek donations are not necessarily data-driven. This practice may be especially true for items located within a library’s general collection, rather than special collections or archives. The research presented here develops new methods that support data-driven decision-making in evaluating gifts-in-kind, particularly for items for the general collection. The authors focus on the concept of rarity and geographic scarcity using OCLC holdings, the WorldCat API, and geospatial methods. They retroactively examined monographs added to the general collection as gifts over a ten-year period at the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB) that are an initial dataset of sixteen thousand or more books. The majority of items are neither unique or rare in holdings, nor are they geographically scarce. However, some are, and the shared characteristics of many of these rare or geographically scarce items may be relevant to Area Studies faculty, students, and researchers. While the results of this study are localized in scope, the methods developed could be easily replicated by libraries seeking to evaluate uniqueness and proximity of current or future gifts-in-kind with high efficiency and objectivity.

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Managing In-Kind Gifts with Getting It Started Toolkit's Gifts and Deselection Manager

Emanuel

2014

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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Refocusing a gift program in an academic library

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Gifts in Croatian public and academic libraries

Gifts in Croatian public and academic libraries

Using the WorldCat API to Develop Data-Driven Decision-Making for Gifts-in-Kind

Managing In-Kind Gifts with Getting It Started Toolkit's Gifts and Deselection Manager

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