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A Study on the Pattern and Efficiency of Patron-Driven Acquisition in Academic Libraries

대학도서관 희망도서의 신청 패턴과 이용효과 분석에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2018.11.19
  • Accepted : 2018.12.20
  • Published : 2018.12.30
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Abstract

Academic libraries need to select and purchase essential collections to support students and faculty in education and research. Therefore, libraries reflect patrons' information needs on collection development through patron purchase requests. This study analyzed the pattern and efficiency of patron purchase requests in a longer-term perspective; for over a decade. Patron purchase requests show different tendencies depending on academic characteristics, which enabled libraries to identify the users' information needs in various subjects. Typically users contributed to collection development by expressing information needs in their fields of study through purchase requests. In the meantime, users in certain fields showed interest in other subject areas besides their own to select general books on various topics. Through this study, it became evident that a major portion of library collections were affected by active purchase requests from a small number of users. However those books were proven to be in demand in terms of effectiveness. Patron-driven acquisition is being implemented as an effective collection development policy.

대학도서관은 구성원이 교육과 연구를 수행하는 데 있어 필요수적인 자료를 선정하여 구입할 필요가 있다. 따라서 이용자의 정보 요구를 장서 개발에 반영하는 방법으로 희망도서 제도를 운영하고 있다. 본 연구는 10년간의 장기적 관점에서 희망도서 신청 과정과 결과를 분석하였다. 희망도서는 단행본에 대한 강력한 정보 요구이기 때문에 주제 분야별 이용자의 정보 요구 패턴을 파악할 수 있었다. 대학 구성원으로서 이용자는 전공하는 학문 분야에 대해서는 전공 도서를 선정하면서도 다른 주제 분야의 교양 도서를 적절히 선정하여 장서 구성에 기여하고 있었다. 결과적으로 희망도서는 소수의 이용자에 의해 선정이 이루어지지만 도서관 전체 이용자의 정보 요구를 충족시키고 있어 효율적인 장서 개발 정책으로 운용되고 있다고 볼 수 있다.

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