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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians equips academic collection managers to select and implement a method or several methods of evaluating their library collections. Zusammenfassung Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians equips academic collection managers to select and implement a method or several methods of evaluating their library collections. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. How Collection Evaluation Can Benefit Your LibraryChapter 2. Approaches to Evaluating Your CollectionChapter 3. Before You StartChapter 4. Benchmarking - Collecting and Analyzing the DataChapter 5. Benchmarking-Interpreting and Acting on the DataChapter 6. List-Checking - Collecting and Analyzing the DataChapter 7. List-Checking - Interpreting and Acting on the DataChapter 8. Usage Statistics-Collecting and Analyzing the DataChapter 9. Usage Statistics-Interpreting and Acting on the DataChapter 10. Citation Analysis - Collecting and Analyzing the DataChapter 11. Citation Analysis-Interpreting and Acting on the DataChapter 12. Sharing What You FoundIndexAbout the Author
