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Collection Assessment Tools and Techniques
Collection based
+ benchmarks - measure collection against other collection/objectives
+ building in new area
User based
+ circ studies ----- circ statistics, circ clouds (like tag clouds, only more useful)
+ database use --- scholarly stats, aggregator usage,
+ ILL - what are they borrowing?
+ citation analysis - what kinds of things are they actually using in their work?
Patron demographics
Tools
+ OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis (focus=monographs)
+ Ulrich's Serials Anaylsis System
(and a few other small outfits)
Final Project
Annotations = 125 words MAX
(unless it is a set)
Collection Assessment Tools and Techniques
Collection based
+ benchmarks - measure collection against other collection/objectives
+ building in new area
User based
+ circ studies ----- circ statistics, circ clouds (like tag clouds, only more useful)
+ database use --- scholarly stats, aggregator usage,
+ ILL - what are they borrowing?
+ citation analysis - what kinds of things are they actually using in their work?
Patron demographics
Tools
+ OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis (focus=monographs)
+ Ulrich's Serials Anaylsis System
(and a few other small outfits)
Final Project
Annotations = 125 words MAX
(unless it is a set)