Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution

This paper reports on the results of an overlap study of Australian research library collections. The study used OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis software to mine data recording Australian holdings on the WorldCat database. The data is analysed according to the results obtained for six ‘grou...

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Main Authors: Genoni, Paul, Wright, Janette
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australian Library and Information Association 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29322
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description This paper reports on the results of an overlap study of Australian research library collections. The study used OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis software to mine data recording Australian holdings on the WorldCat database. The data is analysed according to the results obtained for six ‘groups’ which represent various coalitions of academic, national/state, and special libraries. The data is focussed on the incidence and distribution of overlap and unique items, and the analysis considers the implications for the future management of the nation’s research collection.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-293222017-01-30T13:11:58Z Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution Genoni, Paul Wright, Janette legacy collections library storage uniqueness Australia research collections OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis research libraries collection overlap print storage This paper reports on the results of an overlap study of Australian research library collections. The study used OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis software to mine data recording Australian holdings on the WorldCat database. The data is analysed according to the results obtained for six ‘groups’ which represent various coalitions of academic, national/state, and special libraries. The data is focussed on the incidence and distribution of overlap and unique items, and the analysis considers the implications for the future management of the nation’s research collection. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29322 Australian Library and Information Association fulltext
spellingShingle legacy collections
library storage
uniqueness
Australia
research collections
OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis
research libraries
collection overlap
print storage
Genoni, Paul
Wright, Janette
Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution
title Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution
title_full Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution
title_fullStr Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution
title_full_unstemmed Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution
title_short Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution
title_sort australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution
topic legacy collections
library storage
uniqueness
Australia
research collections
OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis
research libraries
collection overlap
print storage
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29322