Dismantling the Reference Collection

In 2008, the University of Louisville’s (UofL) Ekstrom Library printed reference collection numbered almost 30,000 volumes. Copious collecting and sparse weeding built up the collection during the era before the Internet. There had been considerable reluctance to address its more outdated sections due to competing priorities and inertia. A change of leadership as well as the recognition of changing use patterns had lessened the need for such a large collection. In 2011, three librarians began a title-by-title review process that resulted in an 86% reduction of the reference collection by 2014. This article describes that process, summarizes the results, and discusses the benefits and disadvantages of this approach.     

数字资源与馆藏发展政策

探讨了在制定数字馆藏发展政策时中应注意的5个问题，并介绍了关国加州大学图书馆制定的数字馆藏发展政策。     

学术图书馆的数字馆藏发展

论文阐述了许可资源、数字化馆藏资源、OA资源、Web搜索引擎、学术主题网关、隐形Web资源、机构知识库、Blog和Wiki等在学术图书馆数字化馆藏发展中的作用和意义，并希望它们能得到学术图书馆的重视。     

数字图书馆馆藏发展的中外比较

数字馆藏发展是数字图书馆发展中的一项重要内容，文章从中外数字图书馆馆藏发展的比较中提出对国内数字图书馆发展的若干意见和建议。     

Best Practices in Cooperative Collection Development

ABSTRACT

Best practices in cooperative collection development are based on interviews with 18 successful programs, which fall into three categories of cooperative effort: selection of print; electronic acquisition; and access, storage, and preservation. Questions probe opportunities, barriers, best practices, and lessons learned. Findings are collapsed into three areas of analysis: formation and founding; decision making, organization and administration; and funding and infrastructure. The successful cooperatives displayed best practices in four important areas: communication and consultation, goals and focus, flexibility and adaptability, and technological infrastructure.     

医院小型图书馆工具书的收藏与利用策略

针对小型医学图书馆的特点，对工具书在图书馆工作中的作用以及工具书收藏进行了探讨，并且对工具书的利用策略进行分析。     

Nice vs. Necessary: Reference Collections in ARL Member Libraries

This study assesses the reference collection management practices and strategies used in the reference departments of academic members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Librarians who participate in the management of the humanities and social science reference collections within ARL member libraries responded to an online survey about collection development policies, acquisition processes, collection use, weeding, and marketing of their reference collections. The results of this survey suggest that a large percentage of academic ARL member libraries are weeding their collections regularly, measuring use of the print and electronic reference collection, and moving decidedly toward electronic reference materials.     

Stocking the Virtual Ready Reference Collection

Summary

Libraries have begun to add chat reference as a method to deliver reference service to remote user populations. To deliver quality service in a timely fashion, libraries need to construct a Virtual Ready Reference Collection (VRRC) of elite ready reference Web sites most often used during the chat reference interaction. This article explores the collection development steps needed to create a VRRC that is most beneficial on the local level. The value in creating this collection lies not just in the end product, but also in the process, which serves as a valuable training exercise. Selecting and maintaining the virtual ready reference collection will enhance the chat reference librarians' ability to deliver service in the chat reference environment.     

复合图书馆文献资源建设策略

指出复合图书馆文献资源建设是复合图书馆的基础和核心问题,影响复合图书馆文献资源建设的主要因素是用户需求、文献信息资源结构、信息技术、信息资源出版方式等方面情况发生变化及搜索引擎对图书馆服务的冲击。提出复合图书馆应该从文献资源类型、文献资源管理和加强文献建设评估建设三个方面作出相应调整、补充和完善。     

Rethinking the Reference Collection: Exploring Benchmarks and E-Book Availability

Librarians in the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh explored the possibility of developing an electronic reference collection that would replace the print reference collection, thus providing access to these valuable materials to a widely dispersed user population. The librarians evaluated the print reference collection and standard collection development lists as potential benchmarks for the electronic collection, and they determined which books were available in electronic format. They decided that the low availability of electronic versions of titles in each benchmark group rendered the creation of an electronic reference collection using either benchmark impractical.     

Cooperative Reference and Collection Development: The Science and Technology Group at the University of Tennessee Libraries

SUMMARY

The science and technology subject group within the reference department of the University of Tennessee Libraries brings together librarians from reference and other departments who have collection development and subject liaison duties. The authors describe the group's composition and explain how the sci/tech librarians work cooperatively toward goals set by both the Libraries' Reference & Instructional Services and Collection Development & Management departments. The sci/tech group's primary cooperative functions are to facilitate librarians' mutual assistance in organizing projects, share insights for reference and collection development/management activities, plan instruction efforts, discuss web site development, promote mastery of resources and tools, and address other concerns. The subject group enables librarians to clarify plans and procedures and to come to grips with complicated budget matters. A fundamental benefit of group discussions is that they provide an opportunity to explore viewpoints from librarians outside the reference team, leading to more well-rounded decisions. Together with the other subject groups, the sci/tech librarians and their coordinator identify major needs for information and work to provide solutions that improve library services to the academic community.     

数字化参考咨询服务的特点及图书馆的发展策略

DRS代表了今后参考咨询服务发展的方向，也是目前图书馆界的大热点，它借助因特网的普及和完善在全球迅猛发展，文章详细论述了DRS的特点，并提出国内图书馆发展DRS的策略。     

Web2.0时代数字咨询服务的新进展

论文阐述Web2.0环境下数字参考咨询服务新的发展趋向,即互动咨询模式和个性化主动咨询模式,并探讨在新的用户需求和技术环境下多样化的咨询方式及对咨询馆员的要求。     

美国州立图书馆馆藏建设政策研究

运用文献调查、网络调查和比较分析法,在获取一手资料的基础上,分别从政策文件的形式和内容方面对美国28个州立图书馆的馆藏建设政策进行全面、系统的分析和探讨,总结出美国州立图书馆馆藏建设政策的四大特点：乐于共享,积极交流;制订时间相差较大,时效性较强;明确馆藏定位,以图书馆目的为中心;重视特殊馆藏,强调地方特色。     

新时期高校图书馆文献资源的收藏与利用

进入新世纪，随着信息化、网络化技术的发展，高校图书馆文献资源建设应关注从传统到现代的理念转变，藏用并重，以用为先。     

复合图书馆时代的馆藏发展政策

在分析复合图书馆时代馆藏发展工作的显著变化的基础上，对馆藏发展政策的目的、内容、特征、功能、制定、修订和研究意义进行较为系统的论述。     

Collection Development Assessment for New Collection Development Librarians

A number of articles have been written in the past several years that provide practical advice for librarians new to collection development, particularly in terms of understanding terminology, learning collection development processes, and gaining familiarity with one's library and institution. This article furthers this discussion, but with attention to working in collection development within the OhioLINK consortial environment. In order to thrive in this environment, new bibliographers are benefited by becoming familiar with and using data such as usage statistics, consortium reports, and peer institution statistics to develop and expand collections in one's assigned disciplines. Attention is also given to creating subject collection statements, faculty networking, and colleague assistance. The writer, himself relatively new to collection development, provides insights and perspectives on these matters, chiefly applicable to others new to collection development.     

E-Book Collection Development: Formalizing a Policy for Smaller Libraries

Three librarians from two similar but unaffiliated state colleges—both members of larger university systems—discuss how they confronted similar e-book acquisition concerns. In this session, presenters described how they took two different approaches toward revising their collection development policies, economizing their processes and streamlining their workflows. The presenters discussed patron-driven acquisition e-book programs, as well as the importance of communication and collaboration among library personnel. By formalizing the purchasing decisions of electronic formats, libraries can provide the structure needed to support changing staff roles and shrinking resources, as well as address important related issues such as accessibility and timeliness.     

数字参考咨询系统在图书馆信息服务中的应用

介绍数字参考咨询系统2．0的结构和功能特色．着重叙述该系统在图书馆信息服务中的应用。