title: Combining new technologies for effective collection development: a bibliometric study using CD-ROM and a database management program.
abstract: Librarians have used bibliometrics for many years to assess collections and to provide data for making selection and deselection decisions. With the advent of new technology--specifically, CD-ROM databases and reprint file database management programs--new cost-effective procedures can be developed. This paper describes a recent multidisciplinary study conducted by two library faculty members and one allied health faculty member to test a bibliometric method that used the MEDLINE and CINAHL databases on CD-ROM and the Papyrus database management program to produce a new collection development methodology.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36617.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Burnham
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Shearer
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wall
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D016251:CD-ROM; D003628:Database Management Systems; D007256:Information Systems; D016245:Librarians; D016243:Library Collection Development; D016239:MEDLINE; D010506:Periodicals as Topic