Collection Development

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RECENT  ADDITIONS

 

Safari Books

 

Sage eReference

 

PsycARTICLES

 

Hip to the Trip

 

Toolkit:

     for Collection Development

 

Resources for Subject Librarians:

• Acqweb: links to useful publishing and library pages
• Blackwell's Collection Manager: good verification tool (LibraryCode=pusu, UserID=lastname)
• Choice Reviews Online: reviews of scholarly books (Get ID and pass from John F.)
• Stat Classes 2008: to use for ordering books
• Subject Librarians: who does what

 

Collection data:

• Title Count by Subject, Language, and Format (April 2006)
• Title Count by Subject, Language, and Format (July 2006)
• Title Count by Subject, Language, and Format (October 2006)
• Library funding sources 2003
• USU Library comparison with peers and regional libraries 2003
• Scholarly Communications Issues

 

Notable holdings:

• Art Book Collection--extensive holdings of exhibition catalogs and books on twentieth century art
• Beat Collection--books by and about the Beat generation of writers
• Digital Library--participates in local, state, and regional projects to digitize important documents
• Fife Folklore Collection--one of the largest repositories of American folklore in the United States
• Maps--over 100,000 seperate items
• Special Collections and Archives--rare books and manuscripts, Utah history, USU archive
• U.S government documents--over 98% of items issued by the U.S. Government Printing Office

 

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Questions:

Jennifer Duncan, Head of Collection Developments
(435) 797-8148
jennifer.duncan@usu.edu

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