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Aligning Our Books To Our Patrons, Erika Johnson, Rice Majors, Glenn Johnson-Grau
Aligning Our Books To Our Patrons, Erika Johnson, Rice Majors, Glenn Johnson-Grau
Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship
Three universities (Santa Clara University, University of San Francisco, Loyola Marymount University) have engaged in a multi-year project to leverage patron-initiated inter-library borrowing data to inform collection development. We now have three years of analyzing data for inter-library borrowing, spending, and circulation of local collections. In addition to establishing what a “normal” level of borrowing looks like, we have used this data to identify and fix gaps in our local collections; we also now have data on subsequent circulations of titles purchased as a result of this project. One original goal of the project was to strengthen the meta-collection of …
Assessing The Books We Didn’T Buy (The Sequel), Erika Johnson, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Rice Majors
Assessing The Books We Didn’T Buy (The Sequel), Erika Johnson, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Rice Majors
Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship
Three universities (Santa Clara University, the University of San Francisco, Loyola Marymount University) are leveraging patron-initiated borrowing data to inform our collection development. Expanding on a pilot project that began in 2014, we have been looking at five years of recent borrowing data, along with five years of acquisition data and five years of circulation data of local collections, to help us define what a "normal" level of borrowing looks like as well as identify gaps in local collections. We are also using the data to strengthen the meta-collection of our consortium (LINK+) through the intentional and coordinated diversification of …
The Books We Didn't Buy: Assessing What We Don't Have, Rice Majors, Erika Johnson
The Books We Didn't Buy: Assessing What We Don't Have, Rice Majors, Erika Johnson
Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship
Santa Clara University and the University of San Francisco are leveraging patron-initiated borrowing data to create a deeper and more browse-able collection in certain subject areas where patrons have shown interest. This same ILL data has also been used to strengthen the meta-collection of our consortium (LINK+) through the intentional and coordinated diversification of approval plan profiles. When we began looking at our patron-initiated borrowing data, we could see that there are call number ranges where one or both universities borrow frequently. We will discuss both methodology and preliminary findings: how this data is being gathered, analyzed, and then used …