IMPACT Statement
Anna H. Perrault
Professor
School of Library and Information Science
College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Florida
My research has largely been in collection analysis and related areas of resources sharing, acquisitions, and bibliographic subject expertise. The research in collection assessment has been evidence based librarianship in collaboration with libraries and library networks. The collection analysis projects, the publications, awards and impact from those projects are outlined in this impact statement. Other publications are listed in the complete Vita accessible through my webpage at http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/faculty/perraultvita.html
Research Awards and Impact
2002 Global Collective Resources: A Study of Monographic Bibliographic Records in WorldCat. (July 2002, 7 chapters, 164pp. 45 summary tables, 21 full tables). Report of a bibliometric study conducted under the auspices of an OCLC/ALISE 2001 Research Grant. In 2001, WorldCat, the international bibliographic utility, contained 45 million records, spanning 4,000 years of recorded knowledge in 377 languages. Analysis by 10% systematic random sample according to year of publication, language, and LC subject categories for the WorldCat database, research,academic, public, school and special library groupings. Date ranges: by century until 1800; 1800-1849; 1850-1899; 1900-by decade until 1980;1980-1984, then annually until 2000. Analysis by language groupings for English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian for the research grouping. http://www.oclc.org/research/
“The Role of WorldCat in Resources Sharing,” in “The New Dynamics & Economics of Cooperative Collection Development.” CRL Aberdeen Woods, Nov. 8-10, 2002. Collection Management 26,no.½ (2003) (2 citations)
“WorldCat=Worldwide,” presented at Book Conference 2004, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era,” Beijing, China, 29-31 August, 2004.
Florida College Center for Library Automation----1995-1998, 2002
Florida Community College Collection Assessment Report, 2002. Tallahassee, FL: Community College Center for Library Automation, October, 2002. With the assistance of Jeannie Dixon and Heather Thuotte-Pierson. (Main database, LINCC, report and individual reports for the 28 community colleges: 59 full tables, 121 summary tables )
http://www.ccla.lib.fl.us/docs/2002collassess/2002_state_rpt.pdf
Florida Community College Library Collections Assessment: A Study of Florida Community College Library/Learning Resources Collections. College Center for Library Automation, Tallahassee, FL: Sept. 1998.Co-authored with Richard Madaus, Ann Armbrister, Jeannie Dixon, and Rhonda Smith. ED428773.
IMPACT: Special appropriation of $7 million added to the Division of Community Colleges budget in 1999 to address state of monograph collections in community college libraries; 3 articles.
"An Assessment of the Collective Resources Base of Florida Community College Library Collections: A Profile with Interpretative Analysis,” Resource Sharing and Information Networks, v.14, no.1, 1999:3-20. (First author, co-authored with Richard Madaus, Ann Armbrister, Jeannie Dixon, and John DePew)
“The Effects of High Median Age on Currency of Resources in Community College Library Collections” College & Research Libraries 60, no.4 (July 1999): 316-339. (co-authored with Richard Madaus, Ann Armbrister, Jeannie Dixon, and Rhonda Smith)
“The Florida Community College Statewide Collection Assessment Project: Outcomes and Impact,” College & Research Libraries 63, no.3 (May 2002): 240-249. Co-authored with Tina Adams, Jeannie Dixon, and Rhonda Smith
Academic libraries — 1987-1993
Using the OCLC/AMIGOS CACD, 1996 edition, collecting patterns by subject category were compared for three size tiers of academic libraries. Funded by a 1995 USF Research and Creative Activities grant.
“National Collecting Trends: Methods and Findings” Library and Information Science Research 21, no. 1(1999): 47-67.
IMPACT: Winner, ALCTS Blackwell’s Scholarship Award, 2000; 2 citations
ARL Libraries, 1985-1989
Using the OCLC/AMIGOS CACD, 1991 ed. A bibliometric analysis of the aggregated collections of 72 ARL libraries by language, mean number of holding libraries, and percentage unique titles. Increase/decrease in number of titles for the years 1985and 1989 were compared.
"The Changing Print Resource Base of Academic Research Libraries in the United States: A Comparison of Collecting Patterns in Seventy-two ARL Academic Libraries of Non-serial Imprints for the Years 1985 and 1989," Dissertation, Florida State University, Spring 1994.
IMPACT: ALISE (Association for Library and Information ScienceEducation) 1995 Doctoral Dissertation Award; 15 citations: 2 articles
"The Shrinking National Collection: a Study of the Effects of the Diversion of Funds from Monographs to Serials on the Monograph Collections of Research Libraries," Library Acquisitions Practice & Theory, 18, no.1 (1994): 3-22.
IMPACT: LAPT (Library Acquisitions Practice and Theory) Research Award, 1992:
11 citations
"The Changing Print Resource Base of Academic Research Libraries in the United States," JELIS (Journal of Education for Library and Information Science) 36, no.4 (Fall 1995): 1-16. (7 citations)
Louisiana Academic Libraries —1987-1989
Council on Library Resources grant, 1989 (with Beth Paskoff)
Under the auspices of a CLR grant the collections of fourteen academic libraries in Louisiana and one in California were analyzed according to the same variables and the LSU Libraries analysis. Each library received an individual customized report and the project was reported in –
"The Louisiana Academic Libraries Collection Analysis Project: A Report," LLA Bulletin, 55(Fall 1992): 67-72. (Co-authored with BethPaskoff)
IMPACT: special legislative appropriation of $20 million in 1991 for Louisiana academic libraries to purchase monographs. (1 citation)
Louisiana State University Libraries----- 1985 and 1989
A 5% systematic random sample was taken in two intervals of the shelflist at the LSU libraries. Collection analysis was performed using monograph and serial, language, date, and location variables. The first sample was the subject of an article --
"A Tool for Comparative Collection Analysis: Conducting a Shelf-list Sample to Construct a Collection Profile." Library Resources and Technical Services, vol. 34, no.2(April 1990), 199-215. (Co-authored with Beth Paskoff.)
IMPACT: “Best of LRTS (Library Resources and Technical Services)” award in1991: 2 citations
Research in Progress
Consulting with the USF Tampa campus libraries to conduct usage studies of electronic resources.
Complete listing of citations as of March 2005 are available at http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~perrault/citations.html
updated 03.29.05