Reorganizing a Library Book Collection--Part I

Auditing an Academic Library Book Collection

Reorganizing for the Distributed Library

Many university sites are geographically distributed, with more than one installation or campus at which their students can study. While this is true of university systems, such as the State University of New York, the University of Wisconsin, the California state universities, to name just a few, there are individual universities that maintain more than one campus. Some of these campuses are t...

A Collection of Book Reviews

A medical book collection for physician assistants.

Selecting resources for physician assistants is challenging and can be overwhelming. Although several core lists exist for nursing, allied health, and medical libraries, judging the scope and level of these resources in relation to the information needs of the physician assistant is difficult. Medical texts can be highly specialized and very expensive, in essence, "overkill" for the needs of th...

Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...