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Author: Howard D. White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume: No. 88.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.475kg
ISBN: 9780313297533
ISBN 10: 0313297533
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 26 September 1995
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
?This work is an important contribution to collection development. White provides ample graphs, charts, and tables to support the well-written text... Applications of 'brief tests' should be particularly useful in helping to identify general gaos in a collection and to determine the adequacy of past support for particular areas of the collection.?-Collection Management
This work is an important contribution to collection development. White provides ample graphs, charts, and tables to support the well-written text... Applications of 'brief tests' should be particularly useful in helping to identify general gaos in a collection and to determine the adequacy of past support for particular areas of the collection. -Collection Management For those one-person libraries who manage collections of books and other printed materials, this evaluation tool will prove to be a very helpful aid indeed. -The One-Person Library White exhibits the results of hundreds of trials in many different subjects of dozens of American libraries and provides a scheme for giving test designers greater control over the difficulty of brief tests. -C&RL News ?White exhibits the results of hundreds of trials in many different subjects of dozens of American libraries and provides a scheme for giving test designers greater control over the difficulty of brief tests.?-C&RL News ?For those one-person libraries who manage collections of books and other printed materials, this evaluation tool will prove to be a very helpful aid indeed.?-The One-Person Library ?This work is an important contribution to collection development. White provides ample graphs, charts, and tables to support the well-written text... Applications of 'brief tests' should be particularly useful in helping to identify general gaos in a collection and to determine the adequacy of past support for particular areas of the collection.?-Collection Management
Author Information
HOWARD D. WHITE is a Professor in the College of Information Studies at Drexel University. He has presented numerous papers and workshops, and his work has been published in journals such as Library Quarterly, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Library Journal, and the Journal of Academic Librarianship. In 1993 he received the Research Award from the American Society for Information Science.
