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A survey in 1979 of 119 major academic business libraries (89 responding or 75%, with 86 usable responses) showed that28 (33%) actively collect business/economic working papers. Of the 28, 9 (32%) select only single numbers of working paper series; 7 (25%) collect complete runs; and 12 (43%) use both methods. (Source)
Ibid…. showed that, of the 28 major academic business libraries collecting working papers, the selection criteria used were reputation of institution (20 libraries); faculty/patron request (18); available as gift (17); available through exchange (9); and reputation of the author (7). (Source)
A 1979 survey of faculty members and graduate students at the School of Management at Purdue and the School of Commerce at the University of Illinois, Urbana (sample size: 567; responding: 213) showed that85.5% used working papers from institutions other than their own. (Source)
Ibid…. showed that, of the faculty responding, 39 at Purdue (90.7%) and 57 at Illinois (72.2%) felt that the library should collect working papers. The majority of both faculties (59% at Illinois; 74% at Purdue) felt the library should collect all papers in a series rather than selected papers. (Source)
Ibid…. showed that, of the faculty responding, 23 at Illinois (28.4%) and 17 at Purdue (44.7%) felt that working papers had lasting research value rather than current awareness value only. This compared to 53% of the responding librarians in major academic business libraries who felt that working papers had lasting research value. (Source)