The Alert Collector: Depository Collection Management: Databases and Web-Based Resources as Assessment Tools
Abstract
While the “Alert Collector” has generally presented columns on building collections in specific topic areas, it is good to remember that managing collections involves more than just selection. It is essential that we also evaluate and weed collections on the basis of our users’ needs and interests as well as on our institutional policies. Here, Charmaine Henriques, liaison and subject specialist at the Northwestern University Libraries, discusses managing depository collections using two case studies.—Editor
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.56n2.83
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