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A User Study for the Collection Management of a Medical Library: Focused on the Analysis of Circulation Data of the A-Medical Library

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2015, 32(3), pp.261~276
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2015.32.3.261
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 18, 2015
  • Accepted : September 21, 2015
  • Published : September 30, 2015

Esther Kim 1 Nam Young Joon 2

1중앙대학교 문헌정보학과
2중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is supporting efficient development of library collection and improvement of library service for users by analyzing utilization patterns of library collection using circulation statistics of medical library users. With this purpose, circulation statistics were extracted from 90,420 cases of circulation records in A library for recent 3 years (from 2012 to 2014). Specifically, circulation data categorized according to status and subject, loan data of most popular books and use data of inter-library loan service were collected and analyzed. Subject groups of this study are undergraduate students, graduate students and incumbent hospital employees including faculty members, training members and nondoctor members. For the result, medical library users intensively lent materials of Technology (Applied Sciences), Literature and Social science areas. Especially, the demand of the materials of literature was higher than the demand of the other subject areas compared in the base of collection development.

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