Dear Lis-linkers,
I have been asked to find out from other institutions how reference
materials are handled.
We currently do not have a separate "Reference Collection". We have
a lot of reference materials in with the loan stock. Some are
true reference works, and some are just reference copies of
textbooks, reports, etc. of which we also have loan copies. We
would like to find a better way of organizing these things, but
have only a very limited amount of space into which a reference
collection could be put. This means that not all the "true"
reference materials could go into it.
Does anybody have a policy, or any established criteria as to what
should go into a reference collection which might guide us towards
a coherent selection of resources?
One idea was Official Publications ...
Any views or advice would be greatly appreciated. I would be
willing to summarise for the list if there are detailed responses.
Thanks to all
Georgia Wyver
Subject Librarian : Education and Applied Social Sciences
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