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9780810832015

Collection Development and Assessment in Health Sciences Libraries Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship

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  • ISBN13:

    9780810832015

  • ISBN10:

    0810832011

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-04-30
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $181.00

Summary

Introduces and defines the documentation and decision making processes in collection development, explores organizational models for collection development in health sciences libraries, and describes the rationales and methodologies for assessing health sciences library collections.

Table of Contents

Preface xi(4)
Alison Bunting
Expert Reviewers xv(2)
Advisory Committee Members xvii(2)
Acknowledgments xix(2)
Introduction xxi
Daniel T. Richards
Dottie Eakin
1 The Context for Collection Development in Health Sciences Libraries
1(16)
2 Roles and Relationships in Collection Development
17(16)
3 Education and Training for Collection Development
33(22)
4 Policies and Criteria
55(14)
5 Selection: Journals and Books
69(38)
6 Selection: Electronic Resources
107(22)
7 Selection in Special Settings
129(26)
Reference Collections
130(6)
Audiovisual Collections
136(6)
Consumer Health Collections
142(4)
Rare Book and History of Medicine Collections
146(9)
8 Budgeting for Collection Development
155(26)
9 Collection Assessment
181(18)
10 Cooperative Collection Development
199(10)
11 Preservation
209(16)
12 Research Questions and Future Issues in Collection Development
225(12)
Appendix A -- Examples from Collection Development Policies 237(44)
Appendix B -- Representative Special Setting Collection Development Policies 281(38)
Bibliography 319(6)
Glossary 325(2)
Index 327(14)
Author Biographies 341

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