no.2544-Social work collection evaluation

From: John Abbott <abbottjp_at_conrad.appstate.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:40:13 -0500
To: Colldv-l <COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu>
From:        Beth Jacoby <bjacoby_at_hshsl.umaryland.edu>

Although we are mostly an academic health sciences library, we 
also serve the faculty and students of our School of Social Work.  
We have been charged with evaluating our social work resources to 
determine if we could be doing better.

We plan to compare our holdings to those of libraries known to be 
strong in social work; compare our journal holdings against those 
indexed in Social Work Abstracts; and perhaps set up an approval 
plan with a general academic vendor to cover social work, 
retrospective and current.  (Our current approval plan vendor 
doesn't cover social work.)

1.  Can you suggest names of libraries strong in social work against 
which we can compare our holdings?

2.  Do you know of any bibliographies in social work which aren't 
too dated that we could also use?

3.  Any other suggestions for approaching this task?


Beth Jacoby
Head of Acquisitions/Serials
Health Sciences and Human Services Library
University of Maryland
601 W. Lombard St.
Baltimore, MD  21201-1512
Phone: 410-706-8856    
Fax: 410-706-8860
Received on Mon Dec 13 1999 - 07:41:06 EST