An Information System for Collection Development in SUNY: |
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| Abstract: | A management information system (MIS) is being developed as an aid to academic library collection development decisions and budgeting. It will utilize data on current publication output, library cataloging, current library holdings, library performance, and academic programs of the institution. Furthermore, it will relate these factors to one another. The MIS will describe what each library in a system is cataloging in relation to the current publication output and the academic programs supported by the library. It will also generate data regarding the funds required to purchase a specified portion of the current U.S. publishing output in each subject and may eventually predict the funds required to achieve a specified level of user satisfaction in each subject. The MIS is being developed in the State University of new York (SUNY) but because of the general availablitiy of the data will |
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