Collection Building: Volume 27 Issue 4

Weeding: facing the fears

The purpose of this paper is to provide librarians with an approach to weeding, which reduces librarians' fears and concerns of withdrawing books from an academic collection.

Indicators for collection evaluation: a new dimensional framework

Currently there is a need for an updated assessment model that addresses and reflects the ongoing diversity of issues related to collection evaluation in academic libraries. The…

C.S. Lewis: a guide to resources

Many bibliographies of books about C.S. Lewis' works and life have been compiled in the past, but a bibliography of recent literary criticism addressing Lewis and his work is hard…

An inductive evaluation of a public library GLBT collection

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the overall quality of the Louisville Free Public Library's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender collection.

Subject support in collection development: using the bibliometric tool

The purpose of this paper is to examine the publication output of Research in Higher Education for subject support in collection development in the light of growing interest in…

Perceptions and self‐assessment of university librarians regarding Collection Management (CM): a case study of Pakistan

The purpose of this paper is to discover university librarians' perceptions regarding importance of various elements of CM, and self‐assessment about the status of CM in…

Leadership Basics for Librarians and Information Professionals

Effective Approaches for Managing Electronic Records and Archives

Usage Statistics of E‐Serials

Reference Assessment and Evaluation

Editorial

2008 Awards for Excellence

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