Karen C. Kohn

Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries

A Practical Guide for Librarians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians equips academic collection managers to select and implement a method or several methods of evaluating their library collections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781442238602
• ISBN-10: 1442238607
• Artikelnr.: 42284780

Autorenporträt

Karen Kohn is the Collection Development Manager at Landman Library, Arcadia University, where she has conducted a usage-based collection evaluation and an analysis of student bibliographies. She has a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA in Sociology from Temple University. Ms Kohn has published articles in College & Research Libraries and the Journal of Web Librarianship and has presented on collection evaluation at the Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serials Acquisitions and the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge. Slides from both of these conferences are available online, and links are available on request.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. How Collection Evaluation Can Benefit Your Library
Chapter 2. Approaches to Evaluating Your Collection
Chapter 3. Before You Start
Chapter 4. Benchmarking - Collecting and Analyzing the Data
Chapter 5. Benchmarking-Interpreting and Acting on the Data
Chapter 6. List-Checking - Collecting and Analyzing the Data
Chapter 7. List-Checking - Interpreting and Acting on the Data
Chapter 8. Usage Statistics-Collecting and Analyzing the Data
Chapter 9. Usage Statistics-Interpreting and Acting on the Data
Chapter 10. Citation Analysis - Collecting and Analyzing the Data
Chapter 11. Citation Analysis-Interpreting and Acting on the Data
Chapter 12. Sharing What You Found
Index
About the Author