TY - BOOK AU - Kohn,Karen C. TI - Collection evaluation in academic libraries: a practical guide for librarians T2 - Practical guides for librarians SN - 9781442238602 (pbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 025.21877 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Lanham : PB - Rowman & Littlefield, KW - Academic libraries KW - Collection development KW - Collection development (Libraries) KW - Evaluation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. How collection evaluation can benefit your library -- 2. Approaches to evaluating your collection -- 3. Before you start -- 4. Benchmarking : collecting and analyzing the data -- 5. Benchmarking : interpreting and acting on the data -- 6. List-checking : collecting and analyzing the data -- 7. List-checking : interpreting and acting on the data -- 8. Usage statistics : collecting and analyzing the data -- 9. Usage statistics : interpreting and acting on the data -- 10. Citation analysis : collecting and analyzing the data -- 11. Citation analysis : interpreting and acting on the data -- 12. Sharing what you found -- Index -- About author N2 - Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians equips academic collection managers to select and implement a method or several methods of evaluating their library collections ER -