The complete collections assessment manual : a holistic approach /
"Spanning both concept and practice, Kelly offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts. This manual is applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students"--
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
ALA Neal-Schuman,
2021.
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| ISBN: | 9780838918685 0838918689 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Planning a collections assessment program
- Holistic collections assessment
- Assessment goals
- Assessment stakeholders
- Selecting data and methods
- Project planning
- Communication best practices
- Special considerations
- Part II: Metrics and methods
- Putting the pieces together: How to use Part II
- Inventory
- Reputable bibliographies
- Modified brief test
- Uniqueness
- Peer benchmarking
- E-Resource environmental scan
- Patron demographic mapping
- User surveys
- Interviews
- Focus groups
- Persona exercises
- Circulation analysis
- Physical item return-on-investment
- Interlibrary loan analysis
- E-Resource use analysis
- Turnaway analysis
- Citation analysis
- Constituent publishing outlets
- Bibliometric analysis
- Altmetric analysis
- Part III: Appendixes
- Appendix A: Assessment planning templates
- Appendix B: Software to support assessment
- Appendix C: Sample collections assessment portfolios.