The purpose of this study is the application of a recently developed quantitative method named Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) in the spectrum of Collection Development. RPYS portrays peak years to be recognized in citations in a research field that guarantees to assist in the identification of significant contributions and groundbreaking revelations in a research field.,Preliminary data of the study has been extracted from Web of Science (WoS) by using two phrases “collection development” and “collection building” to search in terms of the topic (comprising four parts: title, abstract, author keywords and KeyWords Plus). The search was restricted to the time period 1974-2017, which formulated a data set of 1,682 documents covering 29,017 cited references. The program CRExplorer (www.crexplorer.net) was used for the extraction of cited references from the data sets downloaded from WoS. Further analysis was performed manually using MS-Excel 2016.,The present study identified seminal works, which contributed to a high extent to the evolution and development of collection development. The analysis of all cited references using the RPYS method showed nine peaks, which present historical roots of collection development and revealed that the basic idea of this very subfield of library science dates centuries back. Moreover, the results of the investigation on most effective documents (in the form of peaks) revealed that the field of collection development significantly influenced by the works of authors such as Gabriel Naude, Gabriel Peignot, Giulio Petzholdt, P L Gross, E M Gross, Richard Trueswell, Allen Kent, Ross Atkinson, etc.,The analysis of works cited in publications helps to ascertain important intellectual contributions related to a particular domain of knowledge. It not only helps in extracting the most important works but also it helps to reconstruct the history of a specific research field by examining the specific role of the cited references. Therefore, the results of the study could be useful for researchers, practitioners, scholars and more specifically bibliophiles, bibliographers and librarians to gain a better understanding of seminal works in the spectrum of collection development.,To the best of authors’ knowledge, the present research work is unique and novel in the spectrum of collection development, which explored and examined the pivotal works in the field by using the RPYS method.

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用参考出版年光谱法研究馆藏发展的历史和历史根源

这项研究的目的是在馆藏发展的光谱中应用一种最新开发的定量方法，称为参考出版年光谱法（RPYS）。RPYS描绘了在一个研究领域中被引用的公认的高峰年，从而保证了在该研究领域中的重大贡献和突破性启示的辅助识别。该研究的初步数据是使用两个方法从Web of Science（WoS）中提取的短语“馆藏发展”和“馆藏建设”以主题（包括标题，摘要，作者关键词和KeyWords Plus四部分）进行搜索。检索仅限于1974-2017年，该时期制定了1,682份文档的数据集，涵盖了29,017篇引用文献。程序CRExplorer（www.crexplorer。网络）用于从WoS下载的数据集中提取引用的参考文献。使用MS-Excel 2016手动进行进一步分析。本研究确定了开创性工作，这些工作在很大程度上促进了馆藏发展的演变和发展。使用RPYS方法对所有引用参考文献的分析显示了9个峰，这些峰代表了馆藏发展的历史根源，并揭示了图书馆学这一子领域的基本思想可以追溯到数百年前。此外，对最有效文件（以峰的形式）的调查结果表明，馆藏发展领域受到诸如加布里埃尔·瑙德，加布里埃尔·佩尼奥特，朱利奥·佩兹霍尔特，PL格罗斯，EM格罗斯，理查德等作家作品的影响Trueswell，艾伦·肯特，罗斯·阿特金森等，对出版物中引用的作品的分析有助于确定与特定知识领域相关的重要智力贡献。它不仅有助于提取最重要的著作，而且还可以通过检查引用文献的具体作用来帮助重建特定研究领域的历史。因此，这项研究的结果可能对研究人员，从业人员，学者，尤其是藏书爱好者，书目作者和图书馆员有用，以使他们更好地了解收藏发展范围内的开创性著作。据作者所知，目前在馆藏开发领域，研究工作是独特而新颖的，它通过使用RPYS方法探索和检验了该领域的关键工作。