Determining Use of an Academic Library Reference Collection: Report of a Study

References

1. Herman Howe Fussler and Julian Lincoln Simon, Patterns in the Use of Books in Large Research Libraries (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1969), 15.
2. Eugene A. Engeldinger, “‘Use’ As a Criterion for the Weeding of Reference Collections: A Review and Case Study,” The Reference Librarian no. 29 (1990): 119-28.
3. Robert N. Broadus, “Use Studies of Library Collections,” Library Resources & Technical Services 24, no. 4 (1980): 317.
4. Ibid., 317-24.
5. Paul T. Adalian Jr. and Ilene F. Rockman, “Title-by-Title Review in Reference Collection Development,” Reference Services Review 12 (Winter 1984): 85-88.
6. Ibid., 86.
7. Ibid., 87.
8. Eugene A. Engeldinger, “Weeding of Academic Library Reference Collections: A Survey of Current Practice,” RQ 25 (Spring 1986): 366-71.
9. Mary Biggs and Victor Biggs, “Reference Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Report of a Survey,” RQ 27 (Fall 1987): 67-79.
10. Ibid., 69.
11. Daniel R. Arrigona and Eleanor Mathews, “A Use Study of an Academic Library Reference Collection,” RQ 28 (Fall 1988): 71-81.
12. Carol Truett, “Weeding and Evaluating the Reference Collection: A Study of Policies and Practices in Academic and Public Libraries,” The Reference Librarian no. 29 (1990): 53-67.
13. Ibid., 66.
14. Engeldinger, “‘Use’ As a Criterion,” 119-28.
15. Ibid., 126.
16. Mary Biggs, “Discovering How Information Seekers Seek: Methods of Measuring Reference Collection Use,” The Reference Librarian no. 29 (1990): 103-17.
17. Karen A. Sendi, “Assessing the Functionality of the Reference Collection,” Collection Building 1, no. 3 (1996): 17-21.
18. Biggs and Biggs, “Reference Collection Development,” 74-75.
19. Engeldinger, “‘Use’ As a Criterion,” 125-26.
20. Sendi, “Assessing the Functionality,” 19.
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22. Engeldinger, “‘Use’ as a Criterion,” 126.
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25. Ibid., 84.
26. Truett, “Weeding and Evaluation,” 59.
27. Kathleen Coleman and Pauline Dickinson, “Drafting a Reference Collection Policy,” College & Research Libraries 38 (May 1977): 227-33; Barbara Lehocky, Academic Reference Collection Development: Policy Statements (ERIC Reproduction Service, ED190160, 1979); Nolan, “The Lean Reference Collection,” 80-91; David R. Majka, “Reference Collection Maintenance: Theory and (Mal)Practice,” Reference Services Review 24, no. 4 (1996): 67-75; William A. Katz, Introduction to Reference Work, 7th ed., vol. 2 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997): 248-53.
28. Vincent, “Let’s Get Rid of It,” 145-57.
29. Jane T. Bradford “What’s Coming Off the Shelves? A Reference use Study Analyzing Print Reference Sources Used in a University Library,” Journal of Academic Librarianship 31, no. 6 (2005): 546-58.

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