Ireland, Ashley

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University of SaskatchewanHARVEST, https://harvest.usask.ca/Conferences and Workshops EBLIP 72013One core to rule them all: An analysis ofYBP's CORE 1000 product for collection developmentIreland, Ashleyhttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/14833Downloaded from HARVEST, University of Saskatchewan's Repository for ResearchOne Core To Rule Them All:   An analysis of YBP’s CORE 1000 product                          for collection development Ashley Ireland Director, User and Instruction Services, Murray State University Murray, KY USA Librarians have a multitude of sources to utilize for recommendations when it comes to collection de-velopment.  There are Choice Reviews, Kirkus, New York Review of Books, Amazon.com, and Re-sources for College Libraries, just to name a few.  With the number of books being published from so many different publishers, it is  often difficult to identify the most useful materials on any given subject at any given time.      So, librarians are often taking advantage of a pack-age product made available by the Yankee Book Peddler company called the Core Titles.       The Core Title package is “designed and imple-mented…to aid academic libraries in assessing cur-rent collections and to allow smaller academic li-braries the opportunity to benefit from participa-tion with a seasoned vendor in collection develop-ment.” Yankee/Baker and Taylor, in an attempt to carry out their mission, selects around 1000 books each year it deems as “core” from the “over 50,000 new titles…published that have relevance to the academic market.”  (CORE website http://www.ybp.com/acad/core1000cover.htm)   Definition of “agriculture” In the four years worth of titles that were analyzed, the YBP/Baker & Taylor marked nine titles as being Agriculture.  Here are those titles: While a few of these titles may be used by students and faculty in the agricultural disciplines, few of these are regionally relevant and most would be more likely used by students in government or public policy.  The items tagged as “Science” by YBP are also overwhelmingly the history of science or biography. Future & Moving Forward Use evidence shows that these CORE titles tend to circulate more fre-quently and more quickly than titles selected by other means, so it is clear that these are quality titles.  But in order to repre-sent other disciplines, Murray State has already be-gun implementing the access-oriented model for e-books from EBL.  It is intended that titles in the CORE list will be included among the titles that are available for access, among titles available from publishers that focus on the sciences and applied sciences.   Methods and Findings Four years of the Core 1000 Titles product were selected for analysis (2007-2010).  Each title was tagged with disciplines within which the subject matter of the books would be utilized within regular study.  Some titles had multiple disciplines associated while others had none.  It should be noted that this was a subjective process.  The figures represented in the table above represent the number of titles coded into each discipline, as they would be used by MSU students and faculty.  The number of titles coded was 3941 (not all CORE 1000 lists are 1000       titles).  The graphical representations show the comparison           between the propor-tions of disciplines     represented in the CORE 1000 titles and the      actual major enrollment at MSU. The humanities and fine arts are grossly over-represented in these titles, while disciplines such as agriculture, education, and health are minimally represented.   This package, while is an excellent beginning point for collection develop-ment, but it fails to be an adequate “core” collection to a regional comprehensive university.   Bundled Ordering Core Titles by Discipline MSU Major Enrollment, By College *Coded by projected use by MSU Departments & Colleges 

One core to rule them all: An analysis of YBP's CORE 1000 product for collection development

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