Choice for cooperative collection development |
| |
| Institution: | 1. School of Chemistry& Chemical Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, China;2. School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China;1. Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA, Australia;2. School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;3. Centre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;4. Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia;5. Torrens University Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia;6. Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;7. Richard A And Susan F Smith Centre for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, MA, USA;8. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;9. Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia;1. DICAM Department, School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna, Italy;2. Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy |
| |
| Abstract: | Book reviews from Choice, proximity, automation, and committed personnel are the bases for a cooperative collection development project among the Tri-College University Consortium libraries at Moorhead, Minnesota, and Fargo, North Dakota. The purpose of the project is to provide more titles for users of the Consortium libraries without compromising collection quality. Librarians at each library make selections from each issue of Choice, prioritize them, compare them, and decide which library should purchase each selection. The ongoing project, in existence for 15 years, currently diverts more than $59,000 annually to additional purchases. This study concludes that when automation, close proximity, and committed personnel are available, cooperative collection development based on Choice reviews is a worthwhile project and that cooperative collection development as a part of resource sharing is the best way to serve the library needs of the Tri-College University Consortium. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
