Collection assessment tools in the library

Chapter 1
PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE
Introduction
Libraries is to concern to the needs of the users and to evaluate how well

they support these needs, in order to improve library facilities, services and

resources in many libraries successful. Library assessment is depending on the

existence of a culture of the assessment in the library. The collection assessment

should also list of staff who would be involved. In small library collection

management may be one of tasks performed by the professional staff, and in

larger librarys collection management may be a significant part of the work of

several members. No matter what the size of the library or its collection, the

objectives of collection management are the responsiveness and accountability

library collection are created to respond the actual and anticipated demands of

the users of those collection. Since the collection development officer of the

library are familiar in the library holding they should be responsible for collection

assessment and also the process of assessing the quality of collection usually in

terms of specific or objectives or the needs of the target group of that particular
collection, one aspect of collection program proposal accreditation are conducted

by the collection development.

Assessment of the collection for academic programs reviews news academic

proposal by the collection development librarian. Any academic or public
department needing such as assessment. Continuing resources subscribing paid
for the library allocation to support the academic description association with the
program under review. Libraries needs to understand each of these environment
and how they affect the needs and behavior involved in supplying and
engineering services to facilities the process in the full array of environment.
Collection assessment through use centered methods, like usages data in the
form of circulation statistics and user input in the form of request or survey, can
help in acquisition of popular items and also in the selecting. Collection
assessment and development librarian has been responsible for the selection
assessment and management of print and electronic collection within academic
and research libraries.

Tools in library allows to check out or barrow tools, equipment and how to
instructional materials, functioning either a rental shop, with a charge, for
barrowing the tools, or more commonly free of charge as a form of tools in library
performs the following main tasks. Sources movement allows application
developers to build robust system using well tried and tested component that are
freely available on the internet. Before open source became widespread
developers were faced with huge license fees for such component, with the cost
being met eventually by the end users. Strategic assessment unit main objectives
is to coordinate data collection and analysis to support both strategic and
operational priorities as well as help demonstrate value of its services to all its
stakeholders. Implementation and maintenance library data management
infrastructure which will allows for capture, storage, analysis and reporting
ongoing support of evaluation efforts relating to implementation of the annual
planning.

Schematic diagram
Schematic diagram of the study showing the independent variables and
dependent variables.

Independent Variables Dependent Variable

Academic Library Shelf reading

Public Library Pat finders
School Library Collection
Special Library Mapping
Private Library
Hypothesis
On the basis of the proceeding problems, the null hypothesis will be tested at
0.05 level of significance. There is no significant relationship between the
respondent and the library tools.

Statement of the problem

The main purpose of this study was to determine the specifically, it sought
to answer the following questions.

1. What is the profile