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Collection Strategy Guide

A guide to share information about performing collection analysis and how to learn more about collection strategies

Directories

Find benchmarks to your institution by using the filters for school size, tuition, etc

Pricing

Preservation

  • Journal/Book that are preserved through the following sites may help with long-term deselection or preservation decisions

Print Evaluation

CREW= Continuous review, evaluation, and weeding

MUSTIE = Misleading, Ugly, Superseded, Trivial, Irrelevant, Elsewhere

  • Appropriate to the library collection
  • Frequency of use
  • Meets the library's collection assessment standards
  • Multiple copies
  • Condition of the item
  • Circulation and ILL data
  • Age of the item, dated content
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