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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1991
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ430208 |
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- Measures of Social Science Collection Development Costs and Their Relationship to Conspectus Standards: Size of the Literature as a Factor in Calculating Costs. Welsch, Erwin K. Academic Libraries Costs Evaluation Methods Higher Education Library Collection Development Library Expenditures Needs Assessment Research Libraries Social Sciences Discussion of the rising costs of academic library materials and their effects on collection development focuses on the social science collection. It is suggested that combining the numerical weights used by the Research Libraries Group Conspectus to evaluate subject collections with estimates of publication production and changes provides a better way to estimate collection development needs. (36 references) (LRW)