Fca. Exon et Kf. Punch, THE SELF-SUFFICIENT LIBRARY COLLECTION - A TEST OF ASSUMPTIONS, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(1), 1997, pp. 11-16
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Information Science & Library Science","Computer Science Information Systems
Modern academic libraries are experiencing a paradigm shift from attem
pting to build self-sufficient collections to providing electronic acc
ess to information stored elsewhere. This shift challenges long-held a
ssumptions about collection self-sufficiency. This assumption was test
ed by replicating the correlational analyses conducted by Paustian (19
81) on data for Australian libraries. Inter-library borrowing statisti
cs were correlated with collection size. A stronger positive correlati
on was observed in the later Australian data than Paustian had observe
d in the earlier American data. It is concluded that the concept of co
llection self-sufficiency is a fallacy, but that the information acces
s paradigm is likely to co-exist with collection building for some tim
e.