A critical examination of the assessment analysis capabilities of OCLC ACAS

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 506-516

  Lyons, Lucy E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 30044438908     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Mary Munroe, "Statewide Library Assessment in Illinois: A History and a Plan," PowerPoint presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program (November 9, 2000).
2. CACD Occasional News 8 (July 1998): 2.
3. Munroe, "Statewide Library Assessment".
4. See, for example, JoAnn Jacoby, "Measurement and Analysis of Electronic Reserve Usage: Toward a new path in online library service assessment," portal: Libraries and the Academy 4 (April 2004): 219-32.
5. Sue Samson "Networked Resources, Assessment and Collection Development" Journal of Academic Librarianship 30 November 2004 476-481
6. Irene Wormell "Bibliometric Analysis for the Evaluation of Subject Portals" Tidskrift for Dokumentation 57 2002 21-30
7. See, for example, Wanda Dole, "Consortium Use of the OCLC/Amigos Collection Analysis CD: The SUNY experience," Library Resources and Technical Services 41 (January 1997): 50-57.
8. Anne C. Ciliberti "Collection Evaluation and Academic Review: A Pilot Study Using the OCLC/Amigos Collection Analysis CD" Library Acquisitions 18 Winter 1994 431-445
9. C. Holleman "The Study of Subject Strengths, Overlap, and National Collecting Patterns: The Uses of the OCLC/Amigo Collection Analysis CD and Alternatives to it" Collection Management 22 1997 57-69
10. Anna H. Perrault "The Role of WorldCat in Resources Sharing" Collection Management 28 2003 63-75
11. CURL/RSLP Collection Mapping Project Based on OCLC/LACEY iCAS Software: Final Report (Online), http:www.curl.ac.uk/projects/ iCAS%20final%20report.pdf (accessed September 2002).
12. Mapping Medicine: Collaborative Collection Management for Biomedical Resources (Online), http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtx017180.pdf (accessed February 2003).
13. Collection Development Committee Collection Assessment Recommendations, Preliminary Report to Orbis Council (Online), http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ orbis/staffhome/CDC_coll_assess_recs-02may-draft.htm (accessed April 2002).
14. Thanks to Jeffrey Garrett, Assistant University Librarian for Collections, Northwestern University Library, for coining this description of the usefulness of ACAS.