Searching for the holy grail: A core collection for undergraduate libraries

Hardesty, Larry; Mak, Collette

doi:10.1016/0099-1333(94)90028-0

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“…In their case they both emphasized-in simply quantitative terms-Management Planning and Budgeting. Hardesty and Mak's (1994) discussion of the possibility of a core collection in undergraduate libraries outlined how faculty selection choices are similarly idiosyncratic.…”

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Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis

Kelly

2015

Public Library Quarterly

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The role that public library collection development policies play in guiding selectors and informing users has been promoted as a pillar of good professional practice. While these policies purport to open up the methods and the criteria used in selection so as to promote transparency and a sense of professional objectivity, how they actually are developed and put into practice has remained largely implicit in the research literature. This analysis revealed that policies tended to focus on local issues and remained heavily materials focused. How collections are developed to support user's information needs and substantive issues associated with topicality are largely unarticulated.Collection policies provide a direction to librarians and users on how their institution has chosen to meet the materials and information needs of its users. This process is a complex mix of factors that involve issues associated with how the library is constituted, managed, and funded; how it is staffed; how staff are trained in the specific roles of materials selection and evaluation; the personal proclivities of the staff-their Weltanschauungen; and the types of materials sought and their range, depth, and availability.Public libraries are faced with a need to make choices and to prioritize based on a set of defined criteria and practical procedures. Collection

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Section: Selection Methodologies (Reasons For Inclusion and Exclusion)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis

Kelly

2015

Public Library Quarterly

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“…A series of studies on the acquisitions decline in ARL libraries by interdisciplinary fields was conducted by Schwartz (1992aSchwartz ( , 1992bSchwartz ( , 1993Schwartz ( , 1994. He devised a model to measure literature loss which he defined as the -growing gap between book publication output and the The collective resources base of 427 college libraries in the size range of 100,000-299,999 titles was the subject of a study by Hardesty and Mak (1994). The study addressed the research question -Does a core collection exist among undergraduate libraries?‖ The OCLC/AMIGOS CACD was the primary source of data.…”

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National collecting trends: Collection analysis methods and findings

Perrault

1999

Library & Information Science Research

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The primary focus of collection evaluation and assessment has been the subjective judgment of the strengths and weaknesses of library collections. The process has generally been a local application, often utilizing peer group comparative data. Quantitative collection analysis to support the subjective processes of collection evaluation and assessment is now almost universally conducted through extraction of data from local systems or network databases. National collecting patterns can be studied through the use of data extracted from the bibliographic utilities. This article examines the use of data from the OCLC/AMIGOS Collection Analysis CD and standard statistical series as a methodology for studying national collecting patterns. Findings on national collecting patterns from 1986-1995 in academic libraries in the United States utilizing the methodology are presented.

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Should libraries acquire books that are widely held elsewhere? A brief investigation with implications for consortial book selection

Walters

2006

Bul. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Searching for the holy grail: A core collection for undergraduate libraries

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis

Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis

National collecting trends: Collection analysis methods and findings

Should libraries acquire books that are widely held elsewhere? A brief investigation with implications for consortial book selection

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