An annotated bibliography and literature guide, this resource is extremely useful for course work in collection development and management. Coverage includes print and electronic materials appropriate for academic, public, school, and special libraries.
This resource is extremely useful for course work in collection development and management.
As a sequel to Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Literature Guide and Annotated Bibliography , this guide catalogs 600-plus books and journal articles published in English between 1992 and 2002, on the evaluation of library collections. Nisonger (Indiana University) organizes the annotations according to collection-centered approaches, client-centered approaches, the Conspectus approach, analysis at the national level, performance measures, serials evaluation, use of citation analysis, journal ranking studies, and evaluation of electronic resources. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
