Anatomy of a serials collection and its usage: case study of an Australian academic library |
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| Institution: | 1. Librarian, CSIRO Pastoral Research Laboratory, Armidale, New South Wales 2350, Australia;2. Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Communications and Information Management, Wellington, New Zealand;1. Institute of Military Physiology, IDF Medical Corps, Israel;2. Heller Institute of Medical Research, Sheba Medical Center, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Israel;3. Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;1. Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia;2. Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Pathobiochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany;3. Childhood Allergy and Immunology Research, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia, Australia;4. Telethon Kids Institute, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This paper reports the results of a serial usage study conducted at an Australian academic library. The study indicates what can happen to holdings if collection development staff do not have access to usage data. In this instance, 55.42% of serial holdings were closed, and 59.14% of serial holdings were unused. The study found that removing unused serials to closed access would significantly reduce the high level of congestion in the collection. It also found that the density of use of serials expressed as average uses per meter in some high-cost disciplines (e.g., mathematics, physics, and chemistry) was significantly lower than the density of use of serials in other disciplines. Possible explanations for this are examined and a number of weeding/relegation strategies are proposed. |
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