WorldCat Collection Analysis Service

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WorldCat Collection Analysis Service

• Jeff Hastings, OCLC
• Sales Development Consultant
• hastingj_at_oclc.org
• July 12, 2007

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Agenda

• Broad Overview
• Five Ways to use WCA
• Future Enhancements
• More Information
• Your Questions

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Overview

• WorldCat Collection Analysis allows you to
• Analyze collection strengths weaknesses
• Compare collection to peer collections
• Measure collection against bibliographies (e.g.
  Library Journal, Publishers Weekly)
• Measure collection against Predefined Groups
  (e.g. Top Executive MBA programs)
• Analyze ILL usage by request date, frequency, and
  cost

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Pricing

• Contact WiLS or your OCLC Library Services
  Consultant

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Login Screen - Library Group Report
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Staff View Screen
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Group Analysis View
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Drilldown to Divisions
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Drilldown to Categories in Business
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Call Numbers Display
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Pre-1900 Economic Theory 29 Titles
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Title Export
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Title File Opened in Excel
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Graph View by Publication Date
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Use Case 1 Identifying Gaps

• NOTE In this example, Boise Public Library will
  serve as our home institution.
• Scenario
• Enhance Music collection
• Compare to Authoritative List

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Use Case 2 Weeding

• NOTE In the following examples, Northern
  Illinois will serve as our home institution.
• Scenario
• Scarce shelf-space
• Identify items for weeding
• Consortial resource sharing agreement

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Use Case 3 Accreditation Review

• Scenario
• Launching an Executive MBA program
• Assess Enhance collection
• Compare to collections of top Executive MBA
  programs

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Use Case 4 Cooperative Collection
Development

• Scenario
• Determine current collection overlap
• Identify strengths and weaknesses by subject area
• Create cooperative collection development policy

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Use Case 5 Preparing for a Digitization
Project

• Scenario
• Limited budget for a digitization project
• Identify strong candidates for digitization
• Do not duplicate other efforts

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Summary of Use scenarios

• Analyze Collection Gaps
• Determine items to weed
• Support Accreditation effort
• Generate Cooperative Collection Development
  policy
• Identify items to digitize

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ILL Analyses
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Graph Request Date
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Graph Request Date with Quarters
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Limit Analysis Screen Request Frequency
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Change Analysis Request Frequency
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Recent Enhancements

• Users can now
• Analyze their ILL usage statistics Nov. 2006
• Limit their analyses to an additional 24
  languages (for a total of 54) April 2007
• Export bibliographic information like Series
  Statement, Price, and Genre April 2007

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Coming Attractions

• Users will soon be able to
• Apply elements of FRBR to their WorldCat
  Comparison (July 07)
• See more granular break-out of Government
  Document materials (July 07)
• Search the OCLC Conspectus by call number (August
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Coming Attractions, cont.

• Users will soon be able to
• Compare their collections to the materials on the
  Registry of Digital Masters (Nov. 07)
• Analyze their Circulation usage statistics (Nov.
  07)

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Circulation Analysis

• Measures your collections usage by
• Circulation date
• Circulation frequency
• Circulation ratio
• Item-level Data
• Copy 1 circulated 3 times
• Copy 2 circulated 5 times

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(Peer) Circulation Analysis

• Circulation Rates at Other Institutions
• What titles are circulating at other
  institutions?
• How frequently are they circulating?
• What titles are collecting dust?
• Benefits
• Broader body of data upon which to base decisions
  
• Leverage the cooperative to better serve patrons

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Additional Information

• Success stories, demonstrations, FAQs and more
  can be found at www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis
• Join the Collection Analysis discussion list at
• https//www3.oclc.org/app/listserv/

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Upcoming Events

• July 18th Webinar, 200 300pm U.S. Eastern
  Time WCA Speakers Series session

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