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http://dx.doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2018.35.4.263

A Study on the Pattern and Efficiency of Patron-Driven Acquisition in Academic Libraries  

Kwon, Sodam (서울대학교 중앙도서관)
Nam, Young Joon (중앙대학교 문헌정보학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for information Management / v.35, no.4, 2018 , pp. 263-284 More about this Journal
Abstract
Academic libraries need to select and purchase essential collections to support students and faculty in education and research. Therefore, libraries reflect patrons' information needs on collection development through patron purchase requests. This study analyzed the pattern and efficiency of patron purchase requests in a longer-term perspective; for over a decade. Patron purchase requests show different tendencies depending on academic characteristics, which enabled libraries to identify the users' information needs in various subjects. Typically users contributed to collection development by expressing information needs in their fields of study through purchase requests. In the meantime, users in certain fields showed interest in other subject areas besides their own to select general books on various topics. Through this study, it became evident that a major portion of library collections were affected by active purchase requests from a small number of users. However those books were proven to be in demand in terms of effectiveness. Patron-driven acquisition is being implemented as an effective collection development policy.
Keywords
network analysis; academic libraries; information needs; patron-driven acquisition; efficiency;
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