Abstract: This paper analyzes the research on library collection evaluation in China through six aspects of time distribu- tion, periodical distribution, author distribution, organization distribution, important articles and research focus- es using the methods of bibliometrics, citation analysis, word-frequency analysis and co-word analysis. A vari- ety of software is used to visualize the analysis results. These analyses represent the history, characteristics and laws of the research on library collection evaluation in China fully and deeply, and it can improve the under- standing of research on library collection evaluation in China, direct the further study on library collection e- valuation.

Key words: library; collection; evaluation; visualization; analysis