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Library,Documentation and Information Science Division

“A research journal serves that narrow

borderland which separates the known from the unknown”

-P.C.Mahalanobis


Collection evaluation in academic libraries :



xvii, 185 p. : illustrations ; 29 cm. - (Practical guides for librarians ; no 16.) Content notes : 1. How collection evaluation can benefit your library --
2. Approaches to evaluating your collection --
3. Before you start --
4. Benchmarking : collecting and analyzing the data --
5. Benchmarking : interpreting and acting on the data --
6. List-checking : collecting and analyzing the data --
7. List-checking : interpreting and acting on the data --
8. Usage statistics : collecting and analyzing the data --
9. Usage statistics : interpreting and acting on the data --
10. Citation analysis : collecting and analyzing the data --
11. Citation analysis : interpreting and acting on the data --
12. Sharing what you found --
Index --
About author. Collection development (Libraries) - Evaluation.

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