Brief Tests of Collection Strength
A Methodology for All Types of Libraries
Series: Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science
By Howard D. White
0-313-29753-3/978-0-313-29753-3
Description
For purposes of accreditation, resource sharing, and institutional mission, librarians need to assess the strengths of their collections in particular subject areas. This book describes and illustrates a brief test for determining a library's collection strength. Though such tests are most often employed in academic libraries, the methodology outlined by the author should be useful to all types of libraries in assessing the strength of their holdings.
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This work is an important contribution to collection development. White provides ample graphs, charts, and tables to support the well-written text... Applications of 'brief tests' should be particularly useful in helping to identify general gaos in a collection and to determine the adequacy of past support for particular areas of the collection.
—Collection Management
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White exhibits the results of hundreds of trials in many different subjects of dozens of American libraries and provides a scheme for giving test designers greater control over the difficulty of brief tests.
—C&RL News
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For those one-person libraries who manage collections of books and other printed materials, this evaluation tool will prove to be a very helpful aid indeed.
—The One-Person Library
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