| Closing the Loop on Collections Review |
2020 |
983 |
Resource cancelations happen all the time; however, assessing the outcomes of this process isn’t necessarily a priority. As our profession continues to move toward data supported decisions, how can we connect new data to decisions made 2–4?years ago?... |
| Collaborative Leadership: Cultivating an Environment for Success |
2018 |
581 |
This paper details the importance (and limitations) of leadership to foster an environment that supports collaboration in library acquisitions. The conditions necessary to create successful teams are examined:creating a compelling vision, enabling ef... |
| Giving Them What They Want: Providing Information for a Serials Review Project |
2011 |
1277 |
In preparation for a comprehensive serials review project, we created a homegrown Access database in order to bring together and analyze information about our collection from multiple sources. Bibliographic and order information were taken from the c... |
| Gone, but not Forgotten: An Assessment Framework for Collection Reviews |
2021 |
185 |
Assessing the effectiveness of previous cancellation decisions is often overlooked in favor of current competing priorities. The authors outline their approach for evaluating journal, journal package, and database cancellations; how they evaluated wh... |
| Is ILL Enough? Examining ILL Demand After Journal Cancellations at Three North Carolina Universities |
2013 |
2503 |
Library budget reductions often result in serials review projects to eliminate ongoing expenditures. A staple of these review projects is the promotion of interlibrary loan as a means of filling demand for canceled journals.However, additional load o... |
| Maximizing Academic Library Collections: Measuring Changes in Use Patterns Owing to EBSCO Discovery Service |
2015 |
3133 |
Despite the prevalence of academic libraries adopting web-scale discovery tools, few studies have quantified their effect on the use of library collections. This study measures the impact that EBSCO Discovery Service has had on use of library resourc... |
| Serials and Continuing Resources |
2019 |
445 |
Chapter 4 of the book Assessment Strategies in Technical Services, edited by Kimberly A. Edwards and Michelle Leonard. This chapter focuses on the main area of assessment for continuing resources: conducting a serials review. The majority of the chap... |
| Starting from Scratch on Perpetual Access |
2013 |
2056 |
When library staff resources are limited, administering post-cancellation access to electronic journal content can often be neglected when other demands of managing electronic resources take priority. Difficulties handling perpetual access include de... |
| Technical Services and Public Services: Collaborative Decision Making |
2017 |
514 |
Presentation for 2017 ALA midwinter meeting. Association for Library Collections & Technical Services ALCTS special interest group. |