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UNINA9910968853903321 |
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Kohn Karen C |
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Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians |
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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9798765170588 |
1-4422-3860-7 |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Practical Guides for Librarians |
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Monografia |
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How collection evaluation can benefit your library -- Approaches to evaluating your collection -- Before you start -- Benchmarking : collecting and analyzing the data -- Benchmarking : interpreting and acting on the data -- List-checking : collecting and analyzing the data -- List-checking : interpreting and acting on the data -- Usage statistics : collecting and analyzing the data -- Usage statistics : interpreting and acting on the data -- Citation analysis : collecting and analyzing the data -- Citation analysis : interpreting and acting on the data -- Sharing what you found. |
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Librarians have long used data to describe their collections. Traditional measures have simply been inputs and outputs: volumes acquired, processed, owned, or circulated. With the growth since the 1990s of cultures of assessment, librarians have sought statistics that are evaluative rather than simply descriptive. More recently, exponentially increasing journal prices and an economic recession have intensified the need to make careful purchasing decisions and to justify these to administrators. A methodical evaluation of a library collection can help librarians understand and meet user needs and can help communicate to administrators that the library is a good use of the institution's money. Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians equips collections managers to select and implement a method or several methods of evaluating their library collections. It includes sections on four tools for evaluation: Comparison to peer |
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institutions Core lists Usage statistics from circulation and ILL Citation analysis Chapters on each of these approaches present the advantages and disadvantages of each method, instructions on data collection and analysis-with screenshots-and suggested action steps after completing the analysis. With a unique combination of step-by-step instructions and discussions of the purpose and role of data, this book provides an unusually thorough guide to collection evaluation. It will be indispensable for collection development librarians and anyone looking to strengthen the culture of assessment within the library. |
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UNINA9910965702303321 |
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Marine protected areas : tools for sustaining ocean ecosystems / / Committee on the Evaluation, Design, and Monitoring of Marine Reserves and Protected Areas in the United States, Ocean Studies Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2001 |
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9780309171441 |
030917144X |
9780309511698 |
0309511690 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Marine parks and reserves |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-208). |
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""Front Matter""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Conservation Goals""; ""3 Conventional Management of Marine Fisheries""; ""4 Societal Values of Marine Reserves and Protected Areas""; ""5 Empirical and Modeling Studies of Marine Reserves""; ""6 Design""; ""7 Monitoring, Research, and Modeling""; ""8 Historical Background and Evaluation of Marine Protected Areas in the United States""; ""9 Conclusions and |
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Recommendations""; ""References""; ""A Acronyms""; ""B Glossary""; ""C Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""D Meeting Agendas"" |
""E Presidential Executive Order Regarding Marine Protected Areas in the United States""""F The IUCN Protected Area Categories System""; ""G Description of Studies Estimating Marine Reserve Area Requirements""; ""Index"" |
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Although the ocean-and the resources within-seem limitless, there is clear evidence that human impacts such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution disrupt marine ecosystems and threaten the long-term productivity of the seas. Declining yields in many fisheries and decay of treasured marine habitats, such as coral reefs, has heightened interest in establishing a comprehensive system of marine protected areas (MPAs)-areas designated for special protection to enhance the management of marine resources. Therefore, there is an urgent need to evaluate how MPAs can be employed in the United States and internationally as tools to support specific conservation needs of marine and coastal waters. Marine Protected Areas compares conventional management of marine resources with proposals to augment these management strategies with a system of protected areas. The volume argues that implementation of MPAs should be incremental and adaptive, through the design of areas not only to conserve resources, but also to help us learn how to manage marine species more effectively. |
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