Combining new technologies for effective collection development: a bibliometric study using CD-ROM and a database management program.
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.
Burnham
J F
JF
Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36617.
Shearer
B S
BS
Wall
J C
JC
D015706:Bibliometrics; D016251:CD-ROM; D003628:Database Management Systems; D007256:Information Systems; D016245:Librarians; D016243:Library Collection Development; D016239:MEDLINE; D010506:Periodicals as Topic