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| author | Coopey, Barbara Eshbach, Barbara Notartomas, Trish |
| author_facet | Coopey, Barbara Eshbach, Barbara Notartomas, Trish Coopey, Barbara Eshbach, Barbara Notartomas, Trish |
| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | Floating Collection in an Academic Library: An Audacious Experiment That Succeeded Coopey, Barbara Eshbach, Barbara Notartomas, Trish Academic Libraries Library Materials Institutional Cooperation Libraries Program Implementation Information Systems Library Services Books Can a floating collection thrive in a large multicampus academic research library? Floating collections have been successful in public libraries for some time, but it is uncommon for academic libraries and unheard of for a large academic library system. This article will discuss the investigation into the feasibility of a floating collection at Penn State University Libraries, its implementation, and continuation for a period covering 2009 through 2015. Attaining the floating collection, limited to monographs in the general stacks of campus libraries, proved to be easier to implement than imagined and resulted in unintended benefits as well as some surprises. |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2016 |
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| spellingShingle | Floating Collection in an Academic Library: An Audacious Experiment That Succeeded Coopey, Barbara Eshbach, Barbara Notartomas, Trish Academic Libraries Library Materials Institutional Cooperation Libraries Program Implementation Information Systems Library Services Books Floating Collection in an Academic Library: An Audacious Experiment That Succeeded Coopey, Barbara Eshbach, Barbara Notartomas, Trish Academic Libraries Library Materials Institutional Cooperation Libraries Program Implementation Information Systems Library Services Books Can a floating collection thrive in a large multicampus academic research library? Floating collections have been successful in public libraries for some time, but it is uncommon for academic libraries and unheard of for a large academic library system. This article will discuss the investigation into the feasibility of a floating collection at Penn State University Libraries, its implementation, and continuation for a period covering 2009 through 2015. Attaining the floating collection, limited to monographs in the general stacks of campus libraries, proved to be easier to implement than imagined and resulted in unintended benefits as well as some surprises. |
| title | Floating Collection in an Academic Library: An Audacious Experiment That Succeeded |
| topic | Academic Libraries Library Materials Institutional Cooperation Libraries Program Implementation Information Systems Library Services Books |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1113173 |