The Library of Babel: Making sense of collection management in a postmodern world

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-150

  Bodi, Sonia ^a   Maier O'Shea, Katie ^a  

^a NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 15844406553     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2004.12.009     Document Type: Article

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2. Ibid pp. 256-263.
3. Robert Galbreath "Nailing Jell-O to the Wall? Collection Management in the Electronic Era" North Carolina Libraries 55 Spring 1997 18-21
4. Marlene Manoff "Hybridity, Mutability, Multiplicity: Theorizing Electronic Library Collections" Library Trends 48 Spring 2000 857-876
5. Ibid p. 860.
6. Following are some examples of collection management policies we have used as models: http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/abo_pol_selection.jsp; http://www.niulib.niu.edu/colldevl.cfm; http://msl.state.mt.us/slr/ cmpola.html; and http://www.sc.edu/library/techserv/cmgenpol.html.
7. Ann Okerson "Are We There Yet?: Online E-Resources Ten Years After" Library Trends 48 Spring 2000 671-693
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10. Association of College and Research Libraries, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Online. American Library Association (2000). Available http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilstandardlo.html (accessed October 28, 2003).
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12. Ibid., p. 377.
13. Beth McMurtrie "Accreditors Revamp Policies to Stress Student Learning" Chronicle of Higher Education July 7, 2000 A 29
14. Josephine Webb "Collection Management to Support Learning" In: Clare Jenkins Mary Morley (Eds.) Collection Management in Academic Libraries 1999 Gower Hampshire, England 136
15. G. Edward Evans with the assistance of Margaret R. Zarnosky, Developing Library and Information Center Collections 2000 Libraries Unlimited Englewood, CA 32
16. The 2002-2003 Marketing Survey was the first survey administered after the 2001 opening of our new library. The Survey, sent to all faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students, requested Likert scale responses to questions about user expectations and levels of satisfaction.
17. Coughlin, Lyle's Administration of the College Library, p. 173.
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19. Paul H. Mosher "Quality and Library Collections: New Directions in Research and Practice in Collection Evaluation" Advances in Librarianship 13 1984 211-238
20. Eveline L. Yang "Psychology Collection Review: A Cooperative Project Between Librarians and Departmental Faculty Members" Collection Management 13 1990 53
21. Kathleen E. Joswick Jeanne Koek Stierman "Perception vs. Use: Comparing Faculty Evaluations of Journal Titles with Faculty and Student Usage" Journal of Academic Librarianship 21 November 1995 457-458
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23. Webb, "Collection Management to Support Learning" p. 153.
24. Robert Heville James Williams III Caroline C. Hunt "Faculty-Library Teamwork in Book Ordering" College and Research Libraries 59 November 1998 524-533
25. Barbara McFadden Allen "Consortia and Collections: Achieving a Balance Between Local Action and Collaborative Interest" Journal of Academic Administration 28 January 1999 85-90
26. Maureen Pastine, ed., Collection Management: Past and Future (New York: Haworth Press, Inc., 1996), pp.4, 7.
27. Mosher, "Quality and Library Collections" p. 220.
28. Interview with Mary Munroe at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, on March 17, 2003.
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31. Jane H. Tuten & Beverly Jones, compilers, Allocation Formulas in Academic Libraries (Chicago: American Library Association, 1995), p. 2.
32. Martin S. Murray Collection Management and Finance: A Guide to Strategic Library-Materials Budgeting 1995 American Library Association Chicago 68
33. Interview with Mary Monroe at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois on March 17, 2003.
34. Richard Hume Werking "Allocating the Academic Library's Book Budget: Historical Perspectives and Current Reflections" Journal of Academic Librarianship 14 1988 140-144 Werking gives a historical summary of the controversial issues surrounding budget allocation and who makes decisions about the collection: Librarians or faculty.
35. Edward Shreeves "The Acquisitions Culture Wars" Library Trends 48 Spring 2000 877-890