Collection Building: Volume 18 Issue 2

Building collections for accreditation: a case study

Gary W. White

The Capital College of Pennsylvania State University received accreditation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in 1998 for all of its…

Large scale collection assessment

Mark L. Grover

An important responsibility of collection development libraries is to ensure that what is being collected is appropriate for the university’s curriculum and research needs…

A review of the 1997 collection development and management literature

Thomas E. Nisonger

This bibliographic essay reviews the English‐language collection development and management literature published in 1997. Selection, deselection, access as an alternative to…

The bibliographical structure of fan information

Chris Hart, Michael Schoolbred, David Butcher, David Kane

To date, many mainstream ILS practitioners and educationalists have ignored fan‐produced literature due to the inherently ephemeral nature of the material and the fact that the…

Can impact factors substitute for the results of local use studies? Findings from an Australian case study

Klaus G. Altmann, G.E. Gorman

The usefulness of impact factors as a substitute for conducting a costly local use study was investigated in an Australian university library. The results presented in this paper…

Women’s Studies Serials: : A Quarter Century of Development

Jitka Hurych

Computer and Information Ethics:: Contributions to the Study of Computer Science

Mark Shelton