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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The changing print resource base of academic libraries in the United States: A comparison of collection patterns in seventy-two ARL academic libraries of non-serial imprints for the years 1985 and 1989 Abstract: The study employs descriptive methodology in analyzing the changes in collecting patterns between 1985 and 1989 in the collective resources base of seventy-two ARL libraries. Data for the study were extracted from the 1991 edition of the OCLC/AMIGOS Collection Analysis CD which contains a database of non-serial imprints for the ten year period 1979-1989. Two broad hypotheses were formulated: (1) that significant declines occurred in the number of non-serial imprints acquired by academic research libraries in the United States and (2) that significant shifts occurred in collecting patterns by subject and language groupings between 1985 and 1989. Rate of change was measured according to 108 Library of Congress classification categories by three broad subject groupings, humanities, social sciences, and sciences and by seven language groupings. Shifts in collecting patterns were measured by the change in the percentage of total imprints, percentage of unique titles to total, and the difference in the mean number of holding libraries per title between 1985 and 1989 by broad subject and language groupings. |
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