Psychology/psychiatry collection development: The social work branch library

Abstract

In a time of budgetaty cutbacks, maintenance of a branch library collection creates serious financial problems for academic libraries. This article explores some of these problems, suggesting a way of determining the need and degree of duplication. The proposed method for formula allocation was developed for a graduate school of social work but is applicable to other professional school branch libraries. It calls for statistical evaluation of acquisitions, collections, and other major services. © 1991 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.