| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育資料科學學系研究所 === 86 === The research discusses the various kinds of educationalperiodical collections, the distribution of the budget and the control of three normal universities in Taiwan. Four types ofresearch were applied, i.e. consulted to experts,collated journals lists, counted the applications of interlibrary loanand interviewed. Based on the virtual collections of network databases, three normal universities library collections werecompared. Both advantages and disadvanges of physical andvirtual collections were analysed. According to the analysis of three universities library collections, the user has to adapt the habits to the multimedia and the access to the resources. Therefore, a resources sharing model of educationalperiodical collection was established, and improved the performance of access to original documents.
The research includes six steps, including data collection, periodical selection, periodical collation, interview, applicationanalysis, and results analysis. Four conclusions were found, i.e.educational periodicals are the core collection in three normaluniversities; three normal universities need to evaluate periodicalssystematically;three libraries have to establish educational coreperiodical collection; and the improvement of resources sharing inthree libraries.
Five suggestions were given, i.e. set up a standard periodicallist which is meet to the national condition; establish a unioncatalog of educational journals; organize a retrieval system of periodical contents; use Z39.50 for resources sharing; and strengthen the training of use electronic journals. Finally, four further researches were suggested: survey the national educational periodical collections; evaluate the periodicalcollections; survey and research other subject periodicalcollections; and survey the use of electronic journals.
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