Husted Jeffrey T, Czechowski Leslie J
Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.
Med Ref Serv Q. 2012;31(3):267-79. doi: 10.1080/02763869.2012.698166.
Librarians in the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh explored the possibility of developing an electronic reference collection that would replace the print reference collection, thus providing access to these valuable materials to a widely dispersed user population. The librarians evaluated the print reference collection and standard collection development lists as potential benchmarks for the electronic collection, and they determined which books were available in electronic format. They decided that the low availability of electronic versions of titles in each benchmark group rendered the creation of an electronic reference collection using either benchmark impractical.
匹兹堡大学健康科学图书馆系统的馆员们探讨了开发一个电子参考藏书库的可能性，该藏书库将取代印刷版参考藏书库，从而使广泛分布的用户群体能够获取这些有价值的资料。馆员们评估了印刷版参考藏书库和标准藏书发展清单，将其作为电子藏书库的潜在基准，并确定了哪些书籍有电子版。他们认为，每个基准组中图书电子版的低可用性使得使用任何一个基准来创建电子参考藏书库都不切实际。
