TY - JOUR
T1 - Best-sellers in academic libraries
AU - Crawford, Gregory A.
AU - Harris, Matthew
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2001/5
Y1 - 2001/5
N2 - Libraries have important collection development decisions to make about best-sellers and popular culture materials. A selection of academic libraries was studied to follow the ownership of best-sellers from 1940 to 1990. The trend is to keep a higher percentage of older best-sellers in fiction than newer ones. Nonfiction appears to be more sporadic but still follows this basic trend. With the influx of popular culture studies, scholars potentially could lose valuable resources. From this study, libraries will see that a new set of collection development policies may need to be developed.
AB - Libraries have important collection development decisions to make about best-sellers and popular culture materials. A selection of academic libraries was studied to follow the ownership of best-sellers from 1940 to 1990. The trend is to keep a higher percentage of older best-sellers in fiction than newer ones. Nonfiction appears to be more sporadic but still follows this basic trend. With the influx of popular culture studies, scholars potentially could lose valuable resources. From this study, libraries will see that a new set of collection development policies may need to be developed.
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U2 - 10.5860/crl.62.3.216
DO - 10.5860/crl.62.3.216
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035534124
SN - 0010-0870
VL - 62
SP - 216
EP - 225
JO - College and Research Libraries
JF - College and Research Libraries
IS - 3
ER -