Multicultural E-resources: An Exploratory Study of Resources Held by ARL Libraries

Authors

Charlene Maxey-Harris, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Charlene Maxey-Harris

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2010

Comments

Published in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 29 (2010), pp. 65–80; doi: 10.1080/01639260903571880 Copyright © 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Used by permission. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t792303973

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to discover what libraries belonging to the Association of Research Libraries are subscribing to in support of multicultural and diversity research. A list of bibliographic and digital collections was created and searched for in the online public access catalogs of academic and research libraries in 2005 and 2008. A list of recommended e-resources was derived based on the ownership of Association of Research Libraries member libraries and Magazine for Libraries 2006 and 2009. During the three-year interval there was a 45.8 percent increase in subscriptions to the multicultural and diversity databases.