Documenting the Stewardship of Libraries: The Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust Validation Sample Studies

Authors :: Amato, Sara
Stearns, Susan
Source :: Collaborative Librarianship. July, 2018, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p162, 14 p.
Publication Year :: 2018
Abstract: The Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST), a regional shared print collaboration of sixty academic and research libraries, conducted validation studies of the collective monograph collection in 2016 and 2017. Methodology, results and limitations of the studies are presented along with thoughts on further research areas.Keywords: validation, shared print<br />Background on EAST and Validation StudiesThe Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) is a regional collaboration of sixty academic and research libraries to define and manage retention agreements for scholarly publications [...]

Subjects :: Library administration -- Methods
Library cooperation -- Methods
Library and information science

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