Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

A subject-based shared approval plan for consortia purchasing of U.S. university press books

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Rob Kairis
While consortia have been successful in cooperating among members for the purpose of sharing electronic resources, they have struggled to extend that level of cooperation to print materials. OhioLINK is investigating methods to accomplish this goal. This paper expands on that initiative and presents a method for creating a shared approval plan for purchasing U.S. university press titles. It presents a subject-based solution stemming from a prior research initiative with OCLC for establishing financial commitments and randomized ownership of materials to be shared among consortium member libraries. This study projects results of this method by applying a prior year's publication output. The results do not describe a perfect plan but one worth exploring as a means to cooperatively purchase and share print books.

Highlights

► Investigates a method to reduce duplication and expand content for print materials ► Uses a subject breakdown to determine library financial commitments and ownership. ► Employs randomization to equitably divide titles purchased among participants. ► Projects results by applying a previous year’s set of U.S. university press titles. ► Projected results, although not perfect, show the method is worth attempting.

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Acquisitions in the Information Universe: Core Competencies and Ethical Practices, Jesse Holden. Facet Publishing, London (2010), ISBN: 9781856047395

Publication date: Spring 2011
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 35, Issue 1
Author(s): Mohamed Taher

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

The physical office environment in technical services in ARL libraries

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Lihong Zhu
In 2012, the authors conducted a survey on the satisfaction level of librarians and staff in technical services in ARL libraries towards their physical office environment and their perceptions on whether physical office environment had an impact on their job satisfaction, privacy, productivity, communication and collaboration. The authors analyzed the survey results and answered three research questions. This paper will provide some understanding about the physical office environment in library technical services and the survey results will be useful for both architects and library administrators when planning and designing physical office environment in library technical services.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

International students' use of a library's media collection

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Jessica Schomberg, Barb Bergman
The purpose of this study was to examine the potential benefits to international students provided by the library's foreign films collection at a mid-sized, rural, public university. The literature on international students shows that they often find library services intimidating. However, there is very little literature on the relationship between international students and their use of library collections. Interviews were conducted with international students new to the university, seeking to determine if providing familiar films eases students' transition and acculturation. Although circulation data show that the foreign films are popular, interviews with international students indicated preference for American films to gain cultural confidence.

Highlights

► International students may experience difficulty in acculturation and anxiety about library use. ► International students were surveyed about use and attitude about library videos. ► Video collection includes many general interest movies in addition to curriculum specific holdings.

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Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population, 2nd ed., Patrick Ragains, Patrick Ragains (Eds.). ALA Neal-Schuman, Chicago (2013)

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Lori Lysiak

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Citation analysis of doctoral dissertations at IIMA: A review of the local use of journals

Publication date: Spring 2011
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 35, Issue 1
Author(s): H. Anil Kumar, Mallikarjun Dora
This study analyzes the citations of the 49 doctoral dissertations submitted at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, during the period 2004 to 2009. The study reveals that journals are the most cited sources, and based on the pattern of citations, a local ranking list of journals has been developed. The study applies Bradford's law to identify the groups of journals differentiated by their use. Results indicated that the top 48 journals that were ranked among the 30 most used journals contributed to more than 55% of the journal citations.

Highlights

► Citation analysis of doctoral dissertations reveals the local use of journal collections. ► The study reveals that 11 journals are the most cited of the sources. ► A local ranking list of 12 journals has been developed. ► Bradford's law used to identify the groups of journals differentiated by their use. ► The top 48 journals ranked among 30 most used journals contribute more than 55% of the citations.

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Impact of the consumption of electronic contents on research productivity in the universities of Castile and Leon

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo, María Luisa Alvite-Díez
The aim of this study is to investigate the link between the use of electronic resources and the academic output of researchers in the state universities of Castile and Leon (Spain) in the period 2006 to 2011. An analysis was undertaken of the consumption of contents distributed to the Universities of Burgos, Leon, Salamanca and Valladolid by three multidisciplinary suppliers whose materials are widely used: ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Wiley. In investigating academic output, the databases Web of Science (WoS) from Thomson Reuters and Scopus from Elsevier were taken into account. The consumption of electronic academic contents at the four universities shows an upward trend over the years considered. There is an undoubted preference for titles distributed by ScienceDirect, striking in all the institutions. The study confirms that academics from the areas of science and technology were the most frequent users. The field of Chemistry registered the highest rates of both consumption and academic production, followed at some distance by publications related to Food Science and Technology, in respect of preferred title use, and by Physics with regard to communication of research results. Many of the journals selected for publications belonged to the suppliers investigated. Nevertheless, the work showed no absolute direct correlation between titles selected for academic publication and titles used from the platforms analyzed.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Editorial Board

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 3–4

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Editorial

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Wendy Allen Shelburne

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Digital methods, Richard Rogers. MIT press (2013, May), ISBN: 9780262018838

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Judith A. Wolfe

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Designing policy for copy cataloging in RDA

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Sevim McCutcheon
The Library of Congress and other national libraries will adopt Resource Description and Access (RDA) on March 31, 2013, but RDA is already an established cataloging code. Copy catalogers are likely to encounter RDA records in the near future, and need local standards to guide their work. This article provides technical service personnel who establish policies with the information needed to establish standards for copy cataloging RDA records, particularly monographs. An example of one successful standard, that of Kent State University Libraries, is provided for readers to adopt or adapt.

Highlights

► Copy catalogers will increasingly encounter RDA records. ► It is advisable to establish local standards for both AACR2 and RDA. ► An example of copy cataloging standards for RDA for monographs is provided.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Decisions in resource management: The case of microforms

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Patricia Keogh
This study examines management of microforms at libraries and institutions maintaining an active interest in their own microform collections, defined for the purpose of this study as those not only holding, but still acquiring microforms. Survey results presented here, which identify factors that contribute to retention and discard decisions – including holdings of the same content in different formats – are considered in the context of decision theory. Findings could inform current and future decisions relating to the microforms discussed here as well as to holdings in formats dependent on other technologies that will eventually change.

Highlights

► Considers decisions to acquire, retain, or deaccession microforms. ► Reports survey results of microform management at 166 libraries. ► Considers effects of usage, policy, and attitudes on decision-making. ► Considers decision theory and reports attitudes of surveyed librarians. ► Concludes that many survey takers base their decisions on subjective considerations.

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Analyzing faculty citations for effective collection management decisions

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Cory Tucker
The article provides details of a faculty citation analysis study conducted at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The citation analysis analyzed faculty citations for publications published from 2002 to 2010. The citation analysis was used for a collection assessment project and continues to be used, along with other data to help assist with collection management decisions.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

The study of library use and document gathering behavior: A survey of geomatics faculty at Wuhan University, China

Publication date: Spring 2011
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 35, Issue 1
Author(s): Shi-Jian Gao, Jin Xiu Guo, Xiao-Ling Duan
This study is to understand the professional document gathering behavior and the use of the Information Technology Library at Wuhan University. The library conducted a survey in 2009 and seventy-eight geomatics faculty participated in this investigation via email to examine what kinds of professional materials they currently use to support teaching and research, how they seek and acquire these documents, and which library services they use most on campus. Questionnaire responses have been tabulated to make the answers clearer and show the results more intuitively. Some incentives were offered to stimulate faculty participation. The survey disclosed many informative responses and also indicated that the library was still the major document gathering source; the faculty more likely used library electronic resources and rarely used other library resources or services; journals and international conference proceedings were the favorite materials for teaching and research. Some ranking lists with reference value were also provided, such as the most widely used foreign journals and international proceedings, and the most familiar academic institutions, publishers and university directories. The study pointed out that the library could develop appropriate collections and services to meet the faculty needs with the implication of the survey.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Editorial

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Wendy Allen Shelburne

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Benchmarking mechanical engineering collections using the WorldCat Collection Analysis tool

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 3–4
Author(s): David E. Hubbard, Bruce D. Neville
The WorldCat Collection Analysis (WCA) tool was utilized to benchmark engineering monograph collections generally and mechanical engineering in depth. This was accomplished by quantitatively comparing the collections of 13 aspirational peer institutions and assessing local holdings based on those benchmarks. This study also explored trends in print and ebook engineering monograph holdings from 2005 to 2010. In addition to benchmarking, limitations and challenges of using WCA and aspirational peers are also discussed.

Highlights

► Holdings of print and ebooks in engineering and mechanical declined from 2005–2010. ► Engineering and mechanical engineering ebook holdings average <6% of holdings. ► Acquisition of ebooks has decreased since 2008 based on WCA peer data. ► WCA has limitations, especially when peers have more than one OCLC symbol.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Educational supplementary bibliographic relationships from FRBR point of view

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Alireza Noruzi, Clément Arsenault
PurposeOne of the aims of library catalogs is to clearly represent the relationships existing between two or more bibliographic entities, enabling users to make sense of these relationships. Educational bibliographic relationships are the relationships between an educational work, such as a textbook, and its related works. The main interest of this study was to understand the nature of the supplementary work-to-work bibliographic relationships among educational works and the constitution of educational bibliographic families in the Canadian context using AMICUS (the Canadian national catalog). A thorough understanding of educational bibliographic relationships is required for understanding the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) supplementary relationships.Design/methodology/approachWe studied the extent and size of educational bibliographic relationships in the bibliographic universe found in the AMICUS catalog. This is an empirical investigation into the nature and extent of educational work-to-work bibliographic relationships by examining title of works, notes and added entries in bibliographic records. The study was carried out between September 1st 2010 and December 22nd 2010 and examines educational bibliographic relationships between Canadian 2009 publications in each class of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). In other words, this study poses two main questions: What is the structure of educational supplementary bibliographic relationships in Canadian publications? Do significant differences exist across the ten DDC classes?FindingsResults show that 595 works of the 2009 bibliographic records in the AMICUS catalog contain an educational supplementary bibliographic relationship. Of the Canadian publications with an educational supplementary work-to-work bibliographic relationship that were studied, the rates of educational bibliographic relationships were relatively high in the fields of Science (27%), Technology (22%), Social Sciences (20%), and Language (19%). The results of this study suggest a set of guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of educational bibliographic relationships.Originality/valueThis is the first research to examine the educational bibliographic relationships, as supplementary relationships.

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Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians, Carol Smallwood, Jason Kuhl, Lisa Fraser (Eds.). Scarecrow Press, Lanham (2013), ISBN: 9780810890527

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Rebecca L. Mugridge

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Building by benchmarking: A method of creating and evaluating an Asian American Studies collection

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Glenn Masuchika
This article examines the methodology undertaken while investigating whether existing materials pertaining to Asian American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University Libraries could support a new academic program. Presently active academic subareas in the field of Asian American Studies were determined. Then existing collections of thirteen “benchmark” universities were examined according to these subareas and compared to the holdings of Pennsylvania State University Libraries. This method can evaluate the fitness of existing collections to new academic demands and serve as a tool for collection development by identifying present and future areas of academic study.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Online databases as research support and the role of librarians in their promotion: The case of Croatia

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Darko Dukić
The main aim of this study was to determine the extent to which Croatian university teachers use online databases as a research support tool, and what role librarians have in their promotion. Although the results show that within Croatian higher education online databases are widely acknowledged as important, they are used less frequently than in many other countries, especially more developed ones. The differences in online database perception between certain user groups were also tested. The study has revealed the problems in database usage and indicated the ways in which librarians can respond to users' needs more efficiently and effectively.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

The recent trends of information organization research in Japan and Korea

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Jane Cho
In order to analyze and compare the intellectual structure of information organization research in Japan and Korea, this study has carried out frequency analysis and network text analysis of research articles published in the last two years. Analysis showed that the Japanese information organization area has a high frequency of research centered on the concepts of “catalog” and “classification”. In particular, “catalog” is seen to have a high figure in degree centrality by network text analysis, it can be said that the “catalog” concept has extensive connections with a diverse range of subjects in the area of information organization. On the other hand, the Korean information organization research area showed a high frequency and connectivity of subjects related to “classification” rather than “catalog”. The “classification” concept is seen to have extensive connections with other various subjects in the Korean information organization research area.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library, Joseph Janes (Ed.). Scarecrow Press, Lanham (2013)

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Rebecca L. Mugridge

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

A dual approach to assessing collection development and acquisitions for academic libraries

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 3–4
Author(s): Robert Danielson
With a growing interest in evaluating the effectiveness of libraries, it is increasingly important that libraries find efficient ways to evaluate the collection development and acquisitions process. This requires a dual approach to explore both what was collected and actually used and also what was not collected which should have been. This study presents a way that both of these areas can be studied for smaller academic libraries and suggests ways these results can be interpreted and used to reallocate scarce budgetary resources or provide evidence for more funds for further developing the collection.

Highlights

► Assess collection development with two separate studies. ► Acquisitions data with circulation statistics determine what was actually used. ► ILL data reveals items that were not acquired, but should have been. ► Suggestions for future budget and acquisitions are based on this assessment. ► A dual approach gives a more accurate evaluation of collection development.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Weeding nursing e-books in an academic library

Publication date: 2012
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 36, Issues 1–2
Author(s): Barbara E. Hightower, John T. Gantt
Libraries supporting health sciences programs must periodically weed collections to remove outdated materials. Both print and e-book collections should be weeded. This article outlines the process Auburn Montgomery librarians followed to weed the NetLibrary e-book collection supporting the School of Nursing curriculum. The nursing courses are taught primarily online or as hybrid courses, increasing reliance on remotely accessible electronic resources. While this e-book weeding project is focused on a specific subject area and the number of e-books weeded is small, the basic method can be applied to larger e-book weeding projects in subject areas other than nursing.

Highlights

► Currency of library resources is critical for nursing research. ► Weeding improves the quality and currency of library e-book collections. ► The library literature does not adequately address weeding e-book collections. ► We outline the process of weeding an academic library's nursing e-book collection.

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

Editorial Board

Publication date: 2013
Source:Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 37, Issues 3–4