"The two most important determinants of quality in library collections are money, which is everyone's favorite measure, and love, which is unquantifiable." --Howard White, Brief Tests of Collection Strength, 1995, p.3
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Read this book before. Great book!
- aaron
Aaron, you might appreciate his recent follow-up article: http://crl.acrl.org/content...
- Mark Kille
Mark, Thanks.. Very old school stuff. Even this article is 2000! Do people actually do collection development evaluation like this anymore? The last time i looked in 2007, no-one seem to be publishing much in the literature on evaluation of collection strength. How do you evaluate whether you are buying the "Right stuff"? That might be a different through related question.. Just look at whether the books you buying are being loaned out? The PDA model seems to suggest that is the goal...
- aaron