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    A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities

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    Authors
    Genoni, Paul
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Genoni, Paul. 2013. A distributed national stored collection: Testing the possibilities. Australian Academic and Research Libraries. 44 (2): pp. 75-89.
    Source Title
    Australian Academic and Research Libraries
    DOI
    10.1080/00048623.2013.795474
    ISSN
    0004-8623
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38105
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper reports on a study of the holdings of a single discipline (Design) by a single institution (RMIT University Library) in order to test for the possibility of a form of distributed national storage in Australia. The study was undertaken using OCLC Collection Analysis software and the WorldCat database. The collection of RMIT University Library is compared with two ‘groups’ of libraries, the first consisting of seven Victorian academic library collections, and the second of three Melbourne-based non-academic libraries considered to have strong Design collections. Conclusions indicate that for this discipline a form of distributed storage is already in place, with the RMIT University Library collection making a considerable and complementary contribution to the state wide holdings.

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