... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Acquisitions Monographs Assessment Approval plans Circulation rates Gobi The University of Idaho is a public, land-grant university located in Moscow, Idaho (population 26,000). The university had an enrollment in fall 2019 of 11,926 students...

...Victor T. Oliva Purpose For most college and university libraries, deselection of monographs should be an essential component of collection development. Few of these libraries have unlimited space for book stack expansion. This research study aims to cover the reasons why this should be undertaken...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Collections management Monographs Music United States of America The past half‐century has witnessed an upsurge of interest, from both musicians and listeners, in the body of song literature created in the USA between the early 1920s...

...Michael Levine‐Clark; Margaret M. Jobe Purpose In order to better understand how collections are used, this study aims to present a large‐scale analysis of usage patterns for non‐core monographs in the collections of fourteen general academic libraries of varying sizes. Design/methodology...

...Kristi Jensen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how online survey tools can be utilized to gather input and feedback from faculty related to monographic collection decisions to evaluate current and guide future decision making. Design/methodology/approach The use of an online...

... in the library. Math books compose almost half of the monograph collection. The library averages 1,000 acquisitions per year. The Swain Hall Library maintains stability in overall collection size by sending low‐use items to an auxiliary storage facility. Collections management Monographs Academic...

...Monica Berger Purpose The purpose of this article is to give an overview of scholarly monographs on rock music from 1980 to the present. It aims to provide an overview to the literature for practical purposes of collection development as well as giving the reader insight into key issues and trends...

... reference materials. Reference print collections are now fairly small. Kay Ann Cassell can be contacted at: kcassell@ scils.rutgers.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Collections management Academic libraries Public libraries Selection Monographs Electronic media I...

...Denise Brush Purpose The purpose of this article is to describe the quantitative evaluation of an engineering monograph approval plan using circulation analysis. Design/methodology/approach The circulation frequency of titles purchased under the approval plan was analyzed, and compared...

... the use of vendor services, and support the project goal. The lessons learned and the methodologies developed by this experimental project provide a promising model for monographic cooperative collection projects in a consortial setting. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Collections...

...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 monographs using subject headings from a print bibliography. Faculty members from the colleges...