Assessment of library collections in a consortial environment experiences from Ohio

• Other Authors: Lupone, George
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2009
• Subjects: Cooperative collection development (Libraries) > Ohio; Cooperative acquisition of library materials > Ohio
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The consortial environment provides librarians with new ways to manage collections at their home institutions. Academic libraries in Ohio have been participating in OhioLINK since 1988, and the consortium has had an effect on shaping local collections for more than one decade. While each institution...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Glenda Thorton
• Do economic factors really matter in the assessment and retention of electronic resources licensed at the library consortium level? / Tom Sanville
• Eight may be too many: getting a toe-hold on cooperative collection building / Ruth R. Connell
• Assessment in a tight time frame: using readily available data to evaluate your collection / Alice Crosetto, Laura Kinner, and Lucy Duhon
• Managing collections between the chemists and the consortium: assessment, engagement, and creativity / Celeste Feather, James K. Bracken, and Jose Diaz
• Comparing circulation rates of monographs and anthologies of literary criticism: implications for cooperative collection development / Ken Irwin
• Book reviews by the numbers / Liz Johnson and Linda A. Brown
• The importance of "focusness": focus groups as a means of collection management assessment / Fran Mentch, Barbara Strauss, and Carol Zsulya
• Ohio regional depositories: moving from warehousing separate collections to servicing shared collections / Phyllis O'Connor and Melanie F. Smith
• Collection development assessment for new collection development librarians / Richard Wisneski
• The OhioLINK OCLC collection analysis project: a preliminary report / Anne T. Gilliland.