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Purpose: Dedicated to quantitative measures based on commonly defined data; managing information resources and developing institutional benchmarking; explores, develops, and promotes the use of both descriptive data and outcomes/impacts data.

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Presentations from ALA Annual 2013: Revealing information about our collections: Taking a closer look

  • 1.  Presentations from ALA Annual 2013: Revealing information about our collections: Taking a closer look

    Posted Jul 16, 2013 11:25 AM

    This program highlighted four different approaches to evaluating and assessing collections:



    • Using SCOPUS To Study Citing Behavior For Collection Development
      Irene Ke, Psychology & Social Work Librarian
      University of Houston


    • Using Acquisitions, Circulation, and ILL Data to Study Collection Practices
      Forrest E. Link, Acquisitions Librarian
      The College of New Jersey Library


    • What’s the Big Deal? Collection Evaluation at the National Level
      Clare Appavoo, Executive Director Officer
      Canadian Research Knowledge Network


    • Mine or theirs, where do users go? A comparison of collection usage at locally hosted platforms versus publisher platforms
      Juleah Swanson, Acquisitions Librarian for Electronic Resources
      Ohio State University Libraries


    The presentations are attached.