Promoting Diversity in Selection: The Eternal Question of Faculty vs. Librarian Selection of Materials.

Fuente: ERIC Institute of Education Sciences

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McCaslin, Sharon
Format:	Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:	en
Published:	1996
Subjects:	Academic Libraries Bias Grants Higher Education Librarian Attitudes Library Circulation Library Collection Development Library Material Selection Library Statistics Use Studies
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Locked in Conversation: The College Library Collection and the Pluralist Society.
by: Houbeck, Robert L., Jr.
Published: (1992)

Effective Collection Developers: Librarians or Faculty?
by: Vidor, David L., et al.
Published: (1988)

Book Selection for Undergraduate Libraries: A Study of Faculty Attitudes.
by: Hardesty, Larry
Published: (1986)

Wasted Words: The Written Collection Development Policy and the Academic Library.
by: Snow, Richard
Published: (1996)

Perceptions vs. Use: Comparing Faculty Evaluations of Journal Titles with Faculty and Student Usage.
by: Joswick, Kathleen E., et al.
Published: (1995)

Management Data for Selection Decisions in Building Library Collections.
by: Hamaker, Charles A.
Published: (1992)

Book Report, Part 2: What Academic Libraries Buy and How Much They Spend.
by: Hoffert, Barbara
Published: (1998)

Activism in Library Development: Women's Studies at Rutgers University, 1970-1995.
by: Lee, Hur-Li
Published: (2002)

Collection Management Strategies in a Digital Environment.
by: Johns, Cecily
Published: (2001)

An Examination and Analysis of Circulation Patterns in the Nursing Books of an Academic Library.
by: Cubberley, Carol W.
Published: (1983)

Resources for Scholars: Music Collections in Four University Libraries: Part 2.
by: Mathiesen, Penelope, Ed., et al.
Published: (1994)

The Effectiveness of Book Selection Agents in a Small Academic Library.
by: Millson-Martula, Christopher
Published: (1985)

An Investigation into the Correlation between Book Circulation and Journal Use in the Science and Technology Section of an Academic Library.
by: Cubberley, Carol W.
Published: (1985)

Liaison with Teaching Faculty: Effective Strategies for Collaborative Collection Development.
by: Gerstein, Christine Wondolowski
Published: (1995)

Academic Librarians' Experiences and Perceptions on Mental Illness Stigma and the Workplace
by: Burns, Erin, et al.
Published: (2019)

University Faculty's Perception of a Library Liaison Program: A Case Study.
by: Yang, Zheng Ye (Lan)
Published: (2000)

The Lean Reference Collection: Improving Functionality through Selection and Weeding.
by: Nolan, Christopher W.
Published: (1991)

Circulation of Federal Documents: A Guide to Selection.
by: Nollen, Sheila H.
Published: (1989)

Academic Library Administration: A Case Examination of Faculty-Librarian Perceptions of Journal Cancellations and the Decision-Making Process in a Large, Urban Institution.
by: Walther, James Harmon
Published: (2003)

The Displacement of Mary Jones.
by: McCaslin, Sharon
Published: (1990)

Selection of Library Materials in the University of the North Library.
by: Kekana, Kgaladi E.
Published: (1999)

Academic Librarians and the Library and Information Science Monograph: An Exploratory Study.
by: Hernon, Peter
Published: (1991)

Liaison with Teaching Faculty and Collaborative Collection Development: An Annotated Selective Bibliography of Journal Literature.
by: Gerstein, Christine Wondolowski
Published: (1994)

Guerrilla Collection Development: Time-Saving Tactics for Busy Librarians.
by: Quinn, Brian
Published: (1995)

Use of Library Materials at a Small Liberal Arts College.
by: Hardesty, Larry
Published: (1981)

Ambition, Discrimination, and Censorship in Libraries.
by: Selth, Jefferson P.
Published: (1993)

Librarian Humor in Classroom and Reference.
by: Osborne, Nancy Seale
Published: (1992)

A Proposed Method for Eliminating Titles from Periodical Subscription Lists.
by: Broadus, Robert N.
Published: (1985)

Leadership Skills of Women Librarians in West Africa.
by: Aina, Joseph O.
Published: (1995)

Is Reserve a Jeopardized Service in Academic Libraries? A Position Paper.
by: Fisher, Patricia A.
Published: (1988)

Networked Collections in Question: An Exploratory Study.
by: Lee, Hur-li
Published: (2001)

Controversies, Collections, and the Academic Library's Educational Role.
by: Varner, Carroll
Published: (1988)

A Reply to the Kent Study.
by: Borkowski, Casimir, et al.
Published: (1981)

Assessment of the Economics and Finance Collections at Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri.
by: Tygett, Mary
Published: (1998)

Research Libraries and Collection Development: Background, Methods, and Perspectives.
by: Buschman, John
Published: (1983)

Administrative Support for Research: A Survey of Library Faculty.
by: Arlen, Shelley, et al.
Published: (1990)

Periodical Use Study. Report No. 6.
by: Brown, Nancy, et al.
Published: (1975)

Library User Survey, Summary Report FY 1990-FY 1992: Russell Library, Georgia College.
by: Scott, R. Neil
Published: (1992)

A Guide to the Management of Curriculum Materials Centers for the 21st Century: The Promise and the Challenge.
by: Carr, Jo Ann, Ed.
Published: (2001)

if (filemtime($filename) + $maxlifetime < time()) { unlink($filename); $count++; } } return $count; } /** * A function that is called internally when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ protected function saveSession($sessId, $data): bool { $sessFile = $this->path . '/sess_' . $sessId; if ($handle = fopen($sessFile, 'w')) { $return = false; // Lock the file for exclusive access to avoid issues with multiple // processes writing session simultaneously: if (flock($handle, LOCK_EX)) { $return = fwrite($handle, $data); // Make sure that there's no trailing data by truncating the file to // the correct length: ftruncate($handle, strlen($data)); fflush($handle); flock($handle, LOCK_UN); } fclose($handle); if ($return !== false) { return true; } } // If we got this far, something went wrong with the file output... // It is tempting to throw an exception here, but this code is called // outside of the context of exception handling, so all we can do is // echo a message.

// Anecdotal testing Today and Yesterday seems to indicate destroy() // is called by the garbage collector and everything is good. // Something to keep in mind though. return 0; } /** * Write function that is called when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ public function write($sessId, $data): bool { if ($this->writesDisabled) { return true; } return $this->saveSession($sessId, $data); } /** * A function that is called internally when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ abstract protected function saveSession($sessId, $data): bool; }

* * @return void */ public function writeClose() { // The assumption is that we're using PHP's ext/session. // session_write_close() will actually overwrite $_SESSION with an // empty array on completion -- which leads to a mismatch between what // is in the storage object and $_SESSION. To get around this, we // temporarily reset $_SESSION to an array, and then re-link it to // the storage object. // // Additionally, while you _can_ write to $_SESSION following a // session_write_close() operation, no changes made to it will be // flushed to the session handler. As such, we now mark the storage // object isImmutable. $storage = $this->getStorage(); if (! $storage->isImmutable()) { $_SESSION = $storage->toArray(true); session_write_close(); $storage->fromArray($_SESSION); $storage->markImmutable(); } } /** * Attempt to set the session name * * If the session has already been started, or if the name provided fails * validation, an exception will be raised. * * @param string $name * @return SessionManager * @throws Exception\InvalidArgumentException */ public function setName($name) { if ($this->sessionExists()) { throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException( 'Cannot set session name after a session has already started'

Environment & details:

GET Data empty

POST Data empty

Files empty

Key	Value
ui	"standard"
language	"en"
VUFIND_SESSION	"544a1ad0f91c8028cf9359e374583e54"

Session

Key	Value
__Laminas	array:2 [`"_REQUEST_ACCESS_TIME" => 1789426543.8959 "_VALID" => array:1 [ "Laminas\Session\Validator\Id" => "544a1ad0f91c8028cf9359e374583e54" ]`]
SessionState	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#938}
FlashMessenger	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1455}
SessionHelper	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1782}

Server/Request Data

Key	Value
REDIRECT_VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
REDIRECT_HTTPS	"on"
REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
REDIRECT_STATUS	"200"
VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
HTTPS	"on"
SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
HTTP_ACCEPT	"/"
HTTP_USER_AGENT	"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
HTTP_COOKIE	"ui=standard; language=en; VUFIND_SESSION=544a1ad0f91c8028cf9359e374583e54"
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	"gzip, br, zstd, deflate"
HTTP_HOST	"info.umar.mx"
PATH	"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"
SERVER_SIGNATURE	"<address>Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu) Server at info.umar.mx Port 443</address>\n"
SERVER_SOFTWARE	"Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu)"
SERVER_NAME	"info.umar.mx"
SERVER_ADDR	"200.23.222.19"
SERVER_PORT	"443"
REMOTE_ADDR	"216.73.216.61"
DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
REQUEST_SCHEME	"https"
CONTEXT_PREFIX	""
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
SERVER_ADMIN	"admin@localhost"
SCRIPT_FILENAME	"/usr/local/vufind/public/index.php"
REMOTE_PORT	"63881"
REDIRECT_URL	"/Record/eric_ED399969/Similar"
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	"CGI/1.1"
SERVER_PROTOCOL	"HTTP/1.1"
REQUEST_METHOD	"GET"
QUERY_STRING	""
REQUEST_URI	"/Record/eric_ED399969/Similar"
SCRIPT_NAME	"/index.php"
PHP_SELF	"/index.php"
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT	1789426543.8894
REQUEST_TIME	1789426543

Environment Variables empty

Registered Handlers

0. Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler

Environment & details:

GET Data empty

POST Data empty

Files empty

Key	Value
ui	"standard"
language	"en"
VUFIND_SESSION	"544a1ad0f91c8028cf9359e374583e54"

Session

Key	Value
__Laminas	array:2 [`"_REQUEST_ACCESS_TIME" => 1789426543.8959 "_VALID" => array:1 [ "Laminas\Session\Validator\Id" => "544a1ad0f91c8028cf9359e374583e54" ]`]
SessionState	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#938}
FlashMessenger	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1455}
SessionHelper	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1782}

Server/Request Data

Key	Value
REDIRECT_VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
REDIRECT_HTTPS	"on"
REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
REDIRECT_STATUS	"200"
VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
HTTPS	"on"
SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
HTTP_ACCEPT	"/"
HTTP_USER_AGENT	"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
HTTP_COOKIE	"ui=standard; language=en; VUFIND_SESSION=544a1ad0f91c8028cf9359e374583e54"
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	"gzip, br, zstd, deflate"
HTTP_HOST	"info.umar.mx"
PATH	"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"
SERVER_SIGNATURE	"<address>Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu) Server at info.umar.mx Port 443</address>\n"
SERVER_SOFTWARE	"Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu)"
SERVER_NAME	"info.umar.mx"
SERVER_ADDR	"200.23.222.19"
SERVER_PORT	"443"
REMOTE_ADDR	"216.73.216.61"
DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
REQUEST_SCHEME	"https"
CONTEXT_PREFIX	""
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
SERVER_ADMIN	"admin@localhost"
SCRIPT_FILENAME	"/usr/local/vufind/public/index.php"
REMOTE_PORT	"63881"
REDIRECT_URL	"/Record/eric_ED399969/Similar"
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	"CGI/1.1"
SERVER_PROTOCOL	"HTTP/1.1"
REQUEST_METHOD	"GET"
QUERY_STRING	""
REQUEST_URI	"/Record/eric_ED399969/Similar"
SCRIPT_NAME	"/index.php"
PHP_SELF	"/index.php"
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT	1789426543.8894
REQUEST_TIME	1789426543

Environment Variables empty

Registered Handlers

0. Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler

Similar Items

Similar Items

Environment & details:

Environment & details: