Session Number
13
Description
In these days, improving bibliographic service, SDI and on-line bibliographies increased the need for original documents, including periodicals. However, price increases severly limit the acquisition possibilities.
In the Central Library of the Veszprém University of Chemical Engineering, the computerized chemical bibliographic system provides a complete overwiew of the world literature of chemistry. The libraries have to provide the required documents for their users. Therefore, the objective of our acquisition policy is to secure the most important and the most frequently used periodicals of chemistry and chemical engineering, and to cover as much of the users' requests from our own collection as possible.
Which are the main aids of acquisition policy? These are:
- the various journal evaluation systems
- the statistical reports of the library which deal with its own work.
From among the international journal evaluation systems, the most valuable one for our library is the Chemical Abstract's list of the 1000 most important periodicals.
The most important aid in the formulation of periodical acquisition policy is the users' requests statistics which is compiled by the library itself.
How can one measure the success or the efficacy of acquisition policy? The ratio of the number of xerox copies supplied from the collection of the library and the number of xerox copies obtained by interlibrary loan indicates the efficiency of the acquisition policy of the library. In 1982, the Central Library of the Veszprém University of Chenucal Engineering supplied 13337 xerox copies. 9130 of these came from its own periodicals collection, while 4207 came from other libraries. The number of xerox copies obtained by the interlibrary service increased significantly over the past 10 years /89%/, more rapidly than the number of copies supplied from the library's own stock /53%/. Nevertheless, the major portion of our users' requests could by supplied from the collection of our library.
Acquisition has three possible forms: the purchase, the exchange and the purchasement from the surplus lists of other libraries. In 1982 the Central Library of Veszprém University of Chemical Engineering purchased 745 periodicals and received 143 as exchange copies from among the total 888. Moreover 84 volumes were obtained from the collections of other libraries.
Nowadays Hungarian libraries have financial difficulties so we can only hope that interlibrary cooperation and good acquisition policy preserves the information-level of the Hungarian periodical stock.
Periodical Acquisition in the Central Library of the Veszprém University of Chemical Engineering
In these days, improving bibliographic service, SDI and on-line bibliographies increased the need for original documents, including periodicals. However, price increases severly limit the acquisition possibilities.
In the Central Library of the Veszprém University of Chemical Engineering, the computerized chemical bibliographic system provides a complete overwiew of the world literature of chemistry. The libraries have to provide the required documents for their users. Therefore, the objective of our acquisition policy is to secure the most important and the most frequently used periodicals of chemistry and chemical engineering, and to cover as much of the users' requests from our own collection as possible.
Which are the main aids of acquisition policy? These are:
- the various journal evaluation systems
- the statistical reports of the library which deal with its own work.
From among the international journal evaluation systems, the most valuable one for our library is the Chemical Abstract's list of the 1000 most important periodicals.
The most important aid in the formulation of periodical acquisition policy is the users' requests statistics which is compiled by the library itself.
How can one measure the success or the efficacy of acquisition policy? The ratio of the number of xerox copies supplied from the collection of the library and the number of xerox copies obtained by interlibrary loan indicates the efficiency of the acquisition policy of the library. In 1982, the Central Library of the Veszprém University of Chenucal Engineering supplied 13337 xerox copies. 9130 of these came from its own periodicals collection, while 4207 came from other libraries. The number of xerox copies obtained by the interlibrary service increased significantly over the past 10 years /89%/, more rapidly than the number of copies supplied from the library's own stock /53%/. Nevertheless, the major portion of our users' requests could by supplied from the collection of our library.
Acquisition has three possible forms: the purchase, the exchange and the purchasement from the surplus lists of other libraries. In 1982 the Central Library of Veszprém University of Chemical Engineering purchased 745 periodicals and received 143 as exchange copies from among the total 888. Moreover 84 volumes were obtained from the collections of other libraries.
Nowadays Hungarian libraries have financial difficulties so we can only hope that interlibrary cooperation and good acquisition policy preserves the information-level of the Hungarian periodical stock.