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Librarians have long used data to describe their collections. Traditional measures have simply been inputs and outputs: volumes acquired, processed, owned, or circulated. With the growth since the 1990s of cultures of assessment, librarians have sought statistics that are evaluative rather than simply descriptive. More recently, exponentially increasing journal prices and an economic recession have intensified the need to make careful purchasing decisions and to justify these to administrators.

Who reads Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Volume 16) (Practical Guides for Librarians, 16)?

Author

Karen C. Kohn

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442250659

Category

language

Subjects

Science, Computer Science, Reference

Updated

2026-03-24