Hiebert discusses the use of a collection mapping tool that
she created for eliminating overlap of items between medical and psychological
collections in university libraries. This tool is useful in a number of
different ways. Primarily, it helps assess the amount of overlap, plan for
collection development that supports interdisciplinary nature of different
libraries on one campus, and combines classification and subject heading. The
combination of classification and subject heading is especially useful for
facilitating more relevant results when searching the catalog.
Though this
tool is useful for so many different collection development related purposes,
it does have some downfalls. The tool is meant very specifically for medical
and psychological libraries, so it is relevant to a very select few librarians.
However, it does present a model for librarians in different subject areas to
follow and potentially create a parallel tool for their subject areas.
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