STRATEGIC PROGRAM FOR THE EDUCATION AND THE INITIAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
PROJECT:
Linking of Greek Academic Libraries
Action 3:
RATIONALISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES’
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS COLLECTIONS
CONSPECTUS APPLICATION
GUIDELINES No 6
ATTRIBUTION OF COLLECTION GOAL INDICATORS (GL)
On the basis of WLN standards (modified according to specific needs of this project),
Collection Goal Indicators (GL) are to be attributed in the following way:
INDICATOR
0
1(a)
1(b)
2(a)
2(b)
3a
3b
DESCRIPTION
Out of scope. The library has no interest in collecting material on this
subject.
Minimal services to other institutions. The library should collect only a
very limited number of titles in order to support only minimal inquiries
about this subject.
Minimal services to a greater number of other institutions. The library
should collect a limited number of titles in order to support only basic
inquiries about this subject.
Coverage of few undergraduate programs offered by other departments of
the same institution. The library’s collection should include a limited
number of periodicals that can be used for the introduction into a subject
and can support mainly the needs of users through the first years of
studies.
Coverage of a greater number of undergraduate programs offered by other
departments of the same institution. The library’s collection should
include a limited number of representative periodicals on this subject in
order to support the needs of users through the first years of studies.
Coverage of undergraduate programs offered by only one sector of the
same department. The library’s collection should provide information
about a subject in a systematic way, but at a level of less than research
intensity. Sufficient number of titles. A significant part of the collection
consists of titles highly recommended for the study of this subject.
Coverage of undergraduate programs offered by more than one sectors of
the same department. The library should dispose an extensive collection
of periodicals. Titles should be in more than one foreign language.
Sustained runs. About half of the titles are highly recommended for the
study of this subject.
3c
4
5
Coverage of postgraduate programs offered by the department. Coverage
of postgraduate programs offered also by other departments of the same
institution in relevance to the disciplines under assessment. An extensive
collection of periodicals. Titles in more than one foreign language. Long
and fairly complete runs. Most of the titles are highly recommended for
the study of this subject.
Support of doctoral study and independent research. The library’s
collection should contain the major published source materials. A very
extensive collection of general and specialized periodicals. Titles in more
than one foreign language.
Almost all of the titles are highly
recommended for the study of this subject.
Support of study and research needs at a regional or national level. The
library has as a goal the exhaustive as far as reasonably possible collection
of the majority of published titles in all applicable languages.
The use of divisions: (a) and (b), under indicators 1 and 2 is optional when assessing
collection goals. A library can use only indicator 1 and/or 2 without any division for
generally referring to the criteria described under those indicators. This is because it
is highly unlikely that any of the participating libraries would have to cover needs as
described above, except for the case of the University of Crete and the Institute of
Technology and Research (Crete) sharing a great interest for titles in Computer
Science. Instead, heavy use of all divisions under indicator 3 and use of indicator 4 is
expected to represent in the best way the collection goals of the libraries.
The criteria describe in the above table may be slightly different regarding Central
Academic Libraries. Central Academic Libraries should cover the needs of all the
institution’s departments equally. Therefore, indicators 2(a) and 2(b) are not likely to
be used for indicating priority to the coverage of specific departments’ needs. For
example, if both the Department of Chemistry and the School of Medicine offer a
course in Biochemistry, the Central Library should consider the need to cover both
departments’ requirements to be of the same importance. However, one must always
take into account that the needs of other departments will be considered only
concerning the DISCIPLINES UNDER ASSESSMENT (i.e. Chemistry, Physics and
Computer Science) and not any other discipline.
This is not the same with the ADDITIONAL DISCIPLINES (i.e. Engineering &
Technology, Biology, etc.) where the main criterion in assessing them, should strictly
be the coverage of the specific needs of RELEVANT DEPARTMENTS OR
SCHOOLS (i.e. Department or School of Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science).
Needs of any other department of the institution (i.e. School of Engineering,
Department of Biology, etc.) should not be considered.
Consequently, unless other local needs require the use of indicators 2a and 2b, a
Central Academic Library should use mainly the divisions applied under indicator 3
in order to indicate the different levels in coverage requirements of departments
belonging to the same institution. That is to say:
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3a: if the collection should cover only the needs of departments other than the
Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science ones,
3b: if the collection should cover the needs of both the 3 relevant departments and
possibly the needs of other departments as well and
3c: if the collection should support postgraduate programs of the 3 relevant
departments and possibly the postgraduate programs of other departments as well.