...Quan Hoang Nguyen Tran Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate collection development quality in Vietnamese university libraries. Specifically, this study investigated the main activities involved in collection development and the negative factors influencing this issue...

...Sarah Nakaziba; Patrick Ngulube Purpose This study aims to assess the extent to which Uganda university libraries have implemented digital transformation technologies and to determine the facilitators and barriers affecting the implementation of digital transformation in selected university...

... 28 09 2016 28 09 2016 12 11 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Academic libraries University libraries Collection development Collection management Content strategy Collection assessment Collection...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Cooperation Collection management University libraries Collection development Science philosophy Structure of scientific revolutions Origin: The universe of the collection elements has multiplied. A large volume...

... Limited 2013 University libraries United States of America Collection management Storage management Institutional repositories Texas A&M University Libraries Print repository Preservation Cooperative repository The use of off‐site storage facilities has become an accepted...

.... A comparative study could also be made between one country and another's university libraries and information centers for usage of library collections and services. Originality/value There are a number of studies on usage of library collections and services, but this is the first of its kind within the King...

... distribution of the original Chinese gazetteers in the Yale East Asia Library by region, time, and type. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United States of America University libraries Collections management Chinese gazetteers Yale East Asia Library History China...

... random sample method was used for selection of respondents. The survey was conducted through a structured questionnaire taking a random sample of 300 users (PG and PhD) from different disciplines of IIT Delhi and Delhi University libraries and the response rate was 66.66 per cent. The questionnaires were...

... Academic libraries University libraries Resources Before we can assess the collection and its development, we must define what we mean by “diversity”. Different organizations and institutions may have opposing views on the meaning of diversity, and various terms may be used for a definition...

... and donation files, acquisition records and library accession registers, were examined and analysed to provide answers to questions relating to study objectives. Findings The usefulness of gifts to university library resource development is underscored by the quality and currency of the 2,462 volumes...

...Abdul Mannan Khan Purpose The main purpose of the study is to identify the current status of collection development organizational patterns and to make a comparative analysis of collection development organizational patterns of the four central university libraries of Uttar Pradesh (UP) i.e...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 University libraries Collections management Teaching Electronic media History Historians are dedicated to the documentation and interpretation of the past. They rely on primary sources (texts or other items produced at a given time which provide...

...Kanwal Ameen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discover university librarians' perceptions regarding importance of various elements of CM, and self‐assessment about the status of CM in university libraries of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the objectives of the study...

... and service models for all the resources available online. Various criteria for consortia have been presented. No previous research has been conducted on the nationwide consortium model in Korean universities. Libraries are changing, and there has been a paradigm shift in Korean libraries...

...Kanwal Ameen; S.J. Haider Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore some major challenges in the area of collection management faced by university libraries in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The methodology includes a literature review and a survey of university libraries...

... money in SERF to cover their individual requests.) Anthony W. Ferguson can be contacted at: ferguson@hkucc.hku.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 University libraries Print media Digital storage Hong Kong Later this year the University of Hong Kong Libraries (HKU...

... 2006 University libraries Collections management Information centres Electronic media Eight years ago in 1998 the University of Southern California (USC) closed its departmental library at the School of Social Work and created an information center in the former library space...

... University libraries Academic libraries Ethnic groups Somalia United States of America Our belief that a diverse collection enriches students' cultural knowledge and provides them with a welcoming place to learn led us to explore the ramifications of limited collection development based on our...

... of 16 centers of higher and technical education in Cuba. Findings Although the directors of university libraries and managers of collection development were aware of the process of collection development, few have collection development policies, and few have carried out user studies. Originality...

...Esharenana E. Adomi; Basil E. Iwhiwhu This is a survey of users’ levels of satisfaction with reserve collection services at Delta State University Library, Abraka, Nigeria. By means of a questionnaire, data were collected. Findings revealed the personal characteristics of the respondents...