Assessing an academic library collection through capacity and usage indicators: testing a multi-dimensional model

Collection Building

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 120-125

  Borin, Jacqueline ^a   yi, Hua ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Assessment; Collection development; Evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959797227     PISSN: 01604953     EISSN: 20545592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01604951111146956     Document Type: Article

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