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MORALES FERNANDEZ, Tania; AGUILA GARCIA, Odalys; CLAVERO FLEITES, Leidy  e  DIAGO GOMEZ, Anamarys. Library of the Provincial Information Center of Medical Sciences, Villa Clara: an evaluation of its collection. Rev EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2014, vol.6, suppl.2, pp. 34-44. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: collection evaluation represents one of the most important elements within the collection development process in libraries for satisfying user's information needs. Objective: to evaluate the current state of the library collection that makes up the library at the Provincial Information Center of Medical Sciences in Villa Clara. Methods: a documentary research was conducted in the period from 2010 to 2012 period; theoretical methods: historical-logical and analytic-synthetic; and empirical ones: documental analysis, and the survey as key informant interview, were used, mainly to know, the lines of research in each of the specialties and to assess the status of them on the documentary collection. Results: all specialties are represented on the documentary collection but there are weaknesses related to informational coverage because information is outdated; the thematic composition was assessed regular in six specialties, and one of them was rated poorly. The entire documentary collection is duly processed and you may access to it through the existing bibliographic reference databases. Conclusions: in the evaluation that was performed, thematic composition is a strength and the outdating level, and size for various categories, are weaknesses. In general, according to previously established indicators, any specialty was assessed as excellent.

Palavras-chave : Library collection development; bibliometric indicators.

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