An assessment of collections at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Libraries: drug resistance.
AUTOR(ES)
Bergen, P L
RESUMO
In December 1997, the authors completed an in-depth collection assessment project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Libraries. The purpose was to develop a framework for future collection assessment projects by completing a multifaceted evaluation of the libraries' monograph and serial collections in the subject area of drug resistance. Evaluators adapted and synthesized several traditional collection assessment tools, including shelflist measurement, bibliography and standard list checking, and citation analysis. Throughout the project, evaluators explored strategies to overcome some of the problems inherent in the application of traditional collection assessment methods to the evaluation of biomedical collections. Their efforts resulted in the identification of standard monographs and core journals for the subject area, a measurement of the collections' strength relative to the collections of benchmark libraries, and a foundation for future collection development within the subject area. The project's primary outcome was a collection assessment methodology that has potential application to both internal and cooperative collection development in medical, pharmaceutical, and other health sciences libraries.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=226515Documentos Relacionados
- Connecticut Association of Health Sciences Libraries: standards and checklist for health sciences libraries.
- Health sciences libraries: strategies in an era of changing economics.
- Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy
- A greater voice for academic health sciences libraries: the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries' vision
- Emerging disciplines in the health sciences and their impact on health sciences libraries: the behavioral sciences