Getting It Right-The Evolution of Reference Collections

Landesman, Margaret

doi:10.1300/j120v44n91_02

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“…1 In a wired world, where the information universe of the Internet is not only on our desktops, but also in our pockets and on our fashion accessories, the role of the print reference collection is less relevant in supporting information and research aims. In no other realm have the common practices of both users and librarians changed more than in how we seek information.…”

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Reference is Dead, Long Live Reference: Electronic Collections in the Digital Age

Terrell¹

2015

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Reference is Dead, Long Live Reference: Electronic Collections in the Digital Age

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2015

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“…The growth of database usage for online searching had been slow. In 1971 a mere 18,000 "batch processed" searches of the Medical Literature and Analysis Retrieval System (MEDLARS) database were conducted in the whole of the US (Landesman, 2005). In 1972 the Lockheed Missiles Corporation of Palo Alto, California launched its Dialog service which provided online searching of secondary abstracting and indexing databases and which charged on a "pay-as-you-go" model.…”

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Law

2006

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Purpose The paper seeks to record the work of the committee and its interaction with the much better known Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme. It also examines the principles that underlay the development of content acquisition and supporting infrastructure in UK university libraries in the 1990s.Design/methodology/approach A historical account of the development of nationally organised e-services for higher education in the 1990s, based on personal recollection, committee minutes and contemporary reports.Findings Confirms the continuing relevance of principles established in that period.Originality/value Provides a record of previously undocumented work.

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Rethinking the Reference Collection: Exploring Benchmarks and E-Book Availability

Husted

Czechowski

2012

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

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Librarians in the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh explored the possibility of developing an electronic reference collection that would replace the print reference collection, thus providing access to these valuable materials to a widely dispersed user population. The librarians evaluated the print reference collection and standard collection development lists as potential benchmarks for the electronic collection, and they determined which books were available in electronic format. They decided that the low availability of electronic versions of titles in each benchmark group rendered the creation of an electronic reference collection using either benchmark impractical.

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Getting It Right-The Evolution of Reference Collections

Cited by 4 publications

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Reference is Dead, Long Live Reference: Electronic Collections in the Digital Age

Reference is Dead, Long Live Reference: Electronic Collections in the Digital Age

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Rethinking the Reference Collection: Exploring Benchmarks and E-Book Availability

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