著者

黒木 努

出版者

日本図書館情報学会

雑誌

図書館学会年報 (ISSN:00409650)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.14, no.1, pp.54-64, 1967 (Released:2023-07-29)

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Increasing university students and the establishments of more universities are the current of the world. The Japanese colleges and universities are no exception. Each college and universities has own history, and its scale or structure is various. We cannot grasp likeness among universities. It is important to render these universities a library service without the declining of its quality in a period of sudden growth and expansion. Many university librarians consider quality matters more than quantity in the estimating of book collections. The present author regards quantity as serious as quality. There are five standards for college and junior college libraries in Japan. Those standards use only student body for estimating size of college library collection. College library has an obligation to cater for faculty as well as students. Accordingly, it is not reasonable to estimate the size of book collection based only upon the student body. The quantitative standard of college libraries must be estimated based on the factors; departments of instruction, the course of study, faculty and the student body, etc. The author tried to find out the formula to estimate the minimum size required for an college library, combinding each factor. The standards for the blueprint of college and university libraries should be revised according to needs of the times. College librarians should show the satisfactory standards of quantity for accrediting agency and appropriating authorities.