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Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment

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Description:The students' questions usually start at the beginning of the term. Soon interlibrary loans departments will have filled or rejected innumerable textbook requests. It would be unwise if not impossible to buy and circulate every textbook at a college or university. There are good reasons to avoid them altogether. Yet for more than a decade academic libraries have been collecting textbooks, and the practice seems to be gaining momentum. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and editor Chris Diaz have gathered case studies that pull together creative approaches and best practices for print textbook reserve programs, addressing such topics as: Funding sources for starting or piloting a programIdentifying course-related books that are in your collection or fit your collection policy.Using LibGuides and Google Sheets to publicize show textbook holdingsUsing aggregated enrollment, grade and textbook cost data to identify "high impact" coursesResults and analysis from a comprehensive detailed survey on of a state university's core-course textbook reserve program. Workflow for using bookstore data with the ILS and purchasing systems.How a back-end database supports discovery for students and reporting for reserves staff.Analysis of circulation data from the 1-year run of a general education textbook reserveWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment. To get started finding Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 160

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: ALA Editions

Release: 2017

ISBN: 0838916031

Description: The students' questions usually start at the beginning of the term. Soon interlibrary loans departments will have filled or rejected innumerable textbook requests. It would be unwise if not impossible to buy and circulate every textbook at a college or university. There are good reasons to avoid them altogether. Yet for more than a decade academic libraries have been collecting textbooks, and the practice seems to be gaining momentum. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and editor Chris Diaz have gathered case studies that pull together creative approaches and best practices for print textbook reserve programs, addressing such topics as: Funding sources for starting or piloting a programIdentifying course-related books that are in your collection or fit your collection policy.Using LibGuides and Google Sheets to publicize show textbook holdingsUsing aggregated enrollment, grade and textbook cost data to identify "high impact" coursesResults and analysis from a comprehensive detailed survey on of a state university's core-course textbook reserve program. Workflow for using bookstore data with the ILS and purchasing systems.How a back-end database supports discovery for students and reporting for reserves staff.Analysis of circulation data from the 1-year run of a general education textbook reserveWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment. To get started finding Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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