National Library of Australia


State Library of Queenland collection assessment
Business & economics

Jitka Bonaventura, State Reference Library
[1998]

Division report comments

Total of monographs in the division is 22765 which represents 5.9% of monographs total 383000 quoted for SRL and Special Collections in 1995/95 annual report. (It would fall in 3b level according to publishing output conspectus manual example).

All titles in this division are in English, therefore no language code has been used.

Support for BUSINESS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION SERVICE QUEENSLAND (BRISQ) unit of the State Library of Queensland is one of important considerations for acquisitions in this division.

Statistics 310 - 319

Statistics collection provides an overview without an in depth analysis.

Australian statistics collection level is maintained at intermediate introductory level 3a. It contains long runs of individual states yearbooks, deposit of Australian Bureau of Statistics publications, ABS Historical microfiche series, Census information on C-Lib and C-Data CD-ROMS, Monthly economic and social indicators/ The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, and other statistical sources in History Reference section.

All other areas of statistics (other than Australian) are at minimal level with uneven coverage 1a. Collecting intentions are to expand other areas to Minimal level with even coverage 1b and to maintain the Intermediate Introductory level 3a for Australian coverage.

Economics 330 - 339

Strong collection in economics theory and major schools of thought. Extensive collection of works of both the major classical and current economists and commentaries on their work.

Emphasis is on Australian conditions but other countries are also represented. Many publications on individual countries include statistical sources lacking in the general statistics collection.

Tracer (Australian Stock exchange Company profiles on CD-ROM) as well as recent editions of Australian Stock Exchange Data disc are held.

Commerce 380 - 388

Extensive collection of business and trade directories, works on Australian export and import as well as international importers directories.

Business and management 650 - 659

Good collection of core serials, business directories, international companies directories, brands and marketing directories and indexes.

Good selection of non-print information sources are held.

ABIX on CD-ROM (Australian Business Index), Annual report file by Australian Graduate School of Management (1988 - 1994 on microfiche, 1994 - on CD-ROM), Business who's who of Australia (Both in hard copy and on CD-ROM) and Business source (CD-ROM).

Business and economics sections of the following major standard bibliographies have been checked against our monographic holdings:

 
	 
Bibliographic list Total checked SRL holdings % held
Walford's guide to reference material 1194 326 27.8
Collier's encyclopedia bibliography 874 170 19.45
Harvard Business School core collection 1333 212 15.9
Australian National Bibliography 1991-1995 3882 1274 32.8
Australia and New Zealand small business manual 110 33 30

Periodical (serials) coverage in the business and economics division

Total number of current (open) serials subscriptions is 743

Total number of closed serials subscriptions is 327

All titles in the business and economics sections of the following periodical indexes held in S.L. collections were checked:

 
	 
Index Total titles SRL holdings % held CL
H.W. Wilson index (BPI) 408 109 24.5 2a
Magazines for libraries 210 24 11.4 2a
ABIX 85 64 75 3b
APAIS 26 26 100 4

GPO, Austrom, MAS CD-ROMS add to the periodical coverage as does the access to the online database searching for overseas and Australian press sources.

Last modified: August 18 2004.