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ACRL’s “2016 Top Trends in Academic Libraries” noted a “shift to the incorporation and integration of more continuous, ongoing, flexible, and sustainable review of collections,” and “an increasing need” to align collection development with “institutional research and curricular requirements.” This article describes these trends playing out at a top-ranked research library. Given the library’s long history of collecting print books, the article examines the monographic acquisitions program from multiple angles, including circulation, expenditures, approval plans, and e-book usage. There are also suggestions for additional metrics to evaluate collections as a service, as well as questions posed to frame an ongoing research and assessment agenda. The models described in this case study and the proposed research and assessment agenda can be adapted by other academic libraries, both to fit local institutional needs and as collection development and “collections as a service” are increasingly realized within interinstitutional collaborative networks.

Collection Evaluation for The Unseen University Library  (with apologies to Sir Terry Pratchett) Introduction The goal of this analysis is to evaluate the overall usability of the Unseen University Library, located in Ankh-Morpork, Discworld. As many quantitative analysis methods are unworkable ...

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UK data-specific colldev policy.

Yale University Library Collection Development Philosophy The Yale University Library collects, organizes, preserves and provides access to a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity in a variety of formats, in support of the teaching, research and public missions of the university. As one of the world’s leading research libraries, and in keeping with Yale’s

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I was fortunate to attend the final session of the recent Association of Research Libraries membership meeting on this topic. The panel of presentations served as the occasion for the …

David Lewis on collections