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An Exploratory Study on Collection Evaluation Indicators for the Collection Development Policy in Public Libraries

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2015, 32(1), pp.43~62
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2015.32.1.043
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : February 24, 2015
  • Accepted : March 15, 2015
  • Published : March 30, 2015

Ji-Eun Oh 1 Dong-Youl Jeong 2

1광진정보도서관
2이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study was implemented to suggest various indicators of collection evaluation for collection development policy in public libraries. For the sake of the exploratory research, this study tried to show the usability of indicators of collection evaluation through actual data of a case study. Also to analyze indicators of collection evaluation, this study used the ten years circulation records of the Gwangjin District Public Library in Seoul. Majors indicators of collection evaluation were the rate of use and use factor of purchasing books by annual, the rate of use and use factor of librarian’s recommended books by annual, the rate of non circulating books by annual, and the rate of use by residence annually.

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