What's coming off the shelves? A reference use study analyzing print reference sources used in a University Library

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 546-558

  Bradford, Jane T ^a  

^a STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 30044436646     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Mary Biggs Victor Biggs "Reference Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Report of a Survey" RQ 27 Fall 1987 69
2. Jane Bradford Barbara Costello Robert Lenholt "Reference Service in the Digital Age: An Analysis of Sources Used to Answer Reference Questions" Journal of Academic Librarianship 31 May 2005 263-272
3. Eugene A. Engeldinger "Weeding of Academic Library Reference Collections: A Survey of Current Practice" RQ 25 Spring 1986 366
4. Ibid., p. 371.
5. Eugene A. Engeldinger "'Use' as a Criterion for the Weeding of Reference Collections: A Review and Case Study" edited by Sydney J. Pierce in Weeding and Maintenance of Reference Collections 1990 Haworth Press New York 119-128
6. Ibid., p. 126.
7. Ibid.
8. Biggs M and Biggs V, "Reference collection development in academic libraries"
9. Ibid., p. 74.
10. Ibid., p. 69.
11. Ibid., p. 77.
12. Daniel R. Arrigona and Elanor Mathews "A Use Study of an Academic Library Reference Collection" RQ 28 Fall 1988 71-81
13. Jennifer Quigley, "Reference Collection Use Study," June 2000, http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~hmunger/reference3/ (accessed December 3, 2004).
14. Bradford J, Costello B and Lenholt R., "Reference Service in the Digital Age."
15. For example, see Judith Murray Griffiths, "Integrating the Web into Reference Services: With Suggestions on Developing a Virtual Reference Collection," Colorado Libraries 25 (Spring 1999): 10-14.
16. Joseph Janes and Charles R. McClure "The Web as a Reference Tool: Comparisons with Traditional Sources" Public Libraries 38 January/ February 1999 30-33+
17. Chuck Koutnik "The World Wide Web is Here: Is the End of Printed Reference Sources Near?" RQ 36 Spring 1997 422-425
18. David W. Lewis "Traditional Reference Is Dead, Now Let's Move on to Important Questions" Journal of Academic Librarianship 21 January 1995 10-12
19. Judith M. Smith Emma-Jane Templeton "A Comparison of the Range and Value of Use of the Internet with Traditional Reference Sources in Scottish Public Libraries" Journal of Information Science 25 1 1999 27-33
20. Carol Tenopir "Plagued by Our Own Successes: Survey of Electronic Reference Sources in Academic Libraries" Library Journal 123 March 1998 39-40
21. Carol Tenopir "Reference Use Statistics: Electronic Resources" Library Journal 123 8 May 1998 32+
22. Carol Tenopir and Lisa A. Ennis "Reference Services in the New Millennium: University Reference Services from 1991 to 2001" Online 25 July/August 2001 40-45
23. Patrick Boyle "What? Use a Book for Doing Research? College Students Forsake Library Shelves for Computers" The Washington Post August 24, 2000 M07
24. For example, see S.J. Pierce, Weeding and Maintenance of Reference Collections (New York: Haworth Press, 1990).
25. Stanley Slote Weeding Library Collections: Library Weeding Methods 3rd ed. 1989 Libraries Unlimited Englewood, CO
26. See Stanley J. Slote, for a discussion of various weeding methods. Weeding Library Collections: Library Weeding Methods.
27. Mary Biggs "Discovering How Information Seekers Seek: Methods of Measuring Reference Collection Use" edited by Sydney J. Pierce in Weeding and Maintenance of Reference Collections 1990 Haworth Press New York 105
28. Ibid., p. 106.
29. Engeldinger EA, "Use as a Criterion for Weeding," p. 126.
30. Bradford J, Costello B and Lenholt R, "Reference Service in the Digital Age," p. 270.
31. Biggs M and Biggs V, "Reference Collection Development in Academic Libraries," p. 78.
32. Bradford J, Cotsello and Lenholt R, "Reference Service in the Digital Age."