A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities
This paper reports on a study of the holdings of a single discipline (Design) by a single institution (RMIT University Library) in order to test for the possibility of a form of distributed national storage in Australia. The study was undertaken using OCLC Collection Analysis software and the WorldC...
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| description | This paper reports on a study of the holdings of a single discipline (Design) by a single institution (RMIT University Library) in order to test for the possibility of a form of distributed national storage in Australia. The study was undertaken using OCLC Collection Analysis software and the WorldCat database. The collection of RMIT University Library is compared with two ‘groups’ of libraries, the first consisting of seven Victorian academic library collections, and the second of three Melbourne-based non-academic libraries considered to have strong Design collections. Conclusions indicate that for this discipline a form of distributed storage is already in place, with the RMIT University Library collection making a considerable and complementary contribution to the state wide holdings. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-381052017-09-13T14:09:29Z A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities Genoni, Paul OCLC Collection Analysis Collection overlap Australia National repository Print storage This paper reports on a study of the holdings of a single discipline (Design) by a single institution (RMIT University Library) in order to test for the possibility of a form of distributed national storage in Australia. The study was undertaken using OCLC Collection Analysis software and the WorldCat database. The collection of RMIT University Library is compared with two ‘groups’ of libraries, the first consisting of seven Victorian academic library collections, and the second of three Melbourne-based non-academic libraries considered to have strong Design collections. Conclusions indicate that for this discipline a form of distributed storage is already in place, with the RMIT University Library collection making a considerable and complementary contribution to the state wide holdings. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38105 10.1080/00048623.2013.795474 Australian Library and Information Association fulltext |
| spellingShingle | OCLC Collection Analysis Collection overlap Australia National repository Print storage Genoni, Paul A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities |
| title | A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities |
| title_full | A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities |
| title_fullStr | A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities |
| title_full_unstemmed | A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities |
| title_short | A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities |
| title_sort | distributed national stored collection: testing the possibilities |
| topic | OCLC Collection Analysis Collection overlap Australia National repository Print storage |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38105 |