The Need for Separating the Collections in Academic Libraries

Authors

  • Victoria Francu Asociația Bibliotecarilor din România

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26660/rrbsi.2019.15.1.16

Keywords:

academic libraries, library collections, document sets, customized access, membership criteria

Abstract

The concept of collection is of crucial importance for libraries, museums and archives. Defining some clear criteria for documents belonging to one or another of the collections is closely related to the organization of knowledge included in them and has a direct impact on information access. These criteria are necessary more than ever under the existing conditions of digital collections. To this effect, the collection management becomes meaningful to a major extent. The paper will analyze by means of argumentation and examples, the necessity of separating the collections, will present membership criteria of document sets to particular collections and will approach the problem of customizing access to them. The examples provided are taken from the collections of four big Romanian university libraries.

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Published

2019-07-02

How to Cite

Francu, V. (2019). The Need for Separating the Collections in Academic Libraries. Revista Română De Biblioteconomie și Știința Informării = Romanian Journal of Library and Information Science, 15(1), 16–26. https://doi.org/10.26660/rrbsi.2019.15.1.16

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Perspective/Opinion/Commentary