Faculty input in book selection: a comparison of alternative methods.
Author
Bell, Jo Ann H.; Bredderman, Paul J.; Stangohr, Margaret K.; O'Brien, Kevin F.
Abstract
In an era of tight funding, academic medical center libraries need to determine their users' needs in order to provide cost-effective resource collections. Although faculty input is valuable, it is impractical to impose such ongoing responsibility on faculty members. This study tested an alternative method by comparing faculty preferences in discipline-specific subjects with faculty choices on corresponding discipline-specific, new-book approval slips from a vendor. Collection development librarian selections, based on formal selection criteria, were evaluated against both measures of faculty preferences. It was found that faculty members' subject ratings did not accurately predict their book choices. Implications of this and the other findings are discussed. Originally published Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 75, No. 3, July 1987
Date
1987-07
Citation:
APA:
Bell, Jo Ann H., & Bredderman, Paul J., & Stangohr, Margaret K., & O'Brien, Kevin F.. (July 1987).
Faculty input in book selection: a comparison of alternative methods..
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association,
75(3),
228-
233. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3212
MLA:
Bell, Jo Ann H., and Bredderman, Paul J., and Stangohr, Margaret K., and O'Brien, Kevin F..
"Faculty input in book selection: a comparison of alternative methods.". Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.
75:3. (228-233),
July 1987.
September 27, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3212.
Chicago:
Bell, Jo Ann H. and Bredderman, Paul J. and Stangohr, Margaret K. and O'Brien, Kevin F.,
"Faculty input in book selection: a comparison of alternative methods.," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 75, no.
3 (July 1987),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3212 (accessed
September 27, 2023).
AMA:
Bell, Jo Ann H., Bredderman, Paul J., Stangohr, Margaret K., O'Brien, Kevin F..
Faculty input in book selection: a comparison of alternative methods.. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.
July 1987;
75(3):
228-233.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3212. Accessed
September 27, 2023.
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Publisher
East Carolina University