ERIC Number: EJ1064843
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jul
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0870
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Revisiting the Landscape of Literatures: Replication and Change in the Use of Subject Collections
Metz, Paul
College & Research Libraries, v72 n4 p344-359 Jul 2011
Circulation data from the Virginia Tech Libraries were analyzed to determine the extent of continuity or change between the author's study of the use of subject collections in 1982 and the present. Book circulation has declined, largely due to much less use by undergraduates. The overall profile of subject use has changed in ways traceable to changes in the population of active library users. Disciplinary groups who still rely on library monographs do so in ways strikingly similar to their behavior in 1982, and the findings strongly replicate the earlier findings that were most suggestive for library practice and the sociology of knowledge.
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Materials, Library Research, Use Studies, Publications, Data Analysis, User Needs (Information), Users (Information), Demography, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, College Faculty, Scores, Graduate Students, Library Networks, Specialists, Library Policy, Library Administration, Academic Libraries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Virginia
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