Collection Building: Volume 19 Issue 1

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The treatment of gay and lesbian fiction for young adults in selected prominent reviewing media

Paulette M. Rothbauer, Lynne E.F. McKechnie

Content analysis was used to determine how a sample of 32 gay and lesbian novels for young adults were treated in 158 reviews from five prominent reviewing journals. Findings…

2010

A method for determining faculty preferences for monographs

Jeffrey D. Kushkowski

Methodologies for determining patron preferences for monographs are a neglected area in library literature. This article describes a method for determining faculty preferences for…

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Quality assessment of collection development through tiered checklists: can you prove you are a good collection developer?

Russell F. Dennison

The most widely used collection assessment tool is checklisting. Interpretation of checklist studies has usually been by comparison to other libraries or by a subjective response…

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Surveying faculty book selection in a comprehensive university library

Hui‐Min Kuo

At Kean University, a comprehensive teaching institution, the submission of new library book orders by faculty is a long‐standing practice. In order to identify and assess the…

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ISSN:

0160-4953

Online date, start – end:

1978 – 2017

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited