Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries - Kohn, Karen C.

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Résumé :
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. How Collection Evaluation Can Benefit Your Library Chapter 2. Approaches to Evaluating Your Collection Chapter 3. Before You Start Chapter 4. Benchmarking - Collecting and Analyzing the Data Chapter 5. Benchmarking-Interpreting and Acting on the Data Chapter 6. List-Checking - Collecting and Analyzing the Data Chapter 7. List-Checking - Interpreting and Acting on the Data Chapter 8. Usage Statistics-Collecting and Analyzing the Data Chapter 9. Usage Statistics-Interpreting and Acting on the Data Chapter 10. Citation Analysis - Collecting and Analyzing the Data Chapter 11. Citation Analysis-Interpreting and Acting on the Data Chapter 12. Sharing What You Found Index About the Author...

Biographie:
Karen Kohn is Collections Analysis Librarian at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she serves on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Collections Committee and the Open Education Group. She also teaches Introduction to Collection Analysis through Library Juice Academy and serves on the editorial board of portal: Libraries and the Academy. She is the author of Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and has published articles in College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Journal of Documentation, Collection Management, and portal....

Sommaire:
Karen Kohn is the Collection Development Manager at Landman Library, Arcadia University, where she has conducted a usage-based collection evaluation and an analysis of student bibliographies. She has a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA in Sociology from Temple University. Ms Kohn has published articles in College & Research Libraries and the Journal of Web Librarianship and has presented on collection evaluation at the Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serials Acquisitions and the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge. Slides from both of these conferences are available online, and links are available on request....