Collection Managements Metrics Bunch

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Collection ManagementsMetrics Bunch
Chuck Spornick Chris Palazzolo Laura McElfresh
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Why an assessment at this time?

• RLG Conspectus 1988-1992
• Sea change in administration
• Expansion of programs new programs

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Who is part of the bunch?
Nowell Briscoe Kim Collins Liz Cooper Laura
McElfresh Justin Otto Chris Palazzolo Sandra
Still Mark Volmer Gayle Williams
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Programs evaluated

• Anthropology
• Art History
• Chemistry
• Comparative Lit.
• East Asian Studies
• Economics

• English American Literature
• French Lang. Lit.
• History, European
• History, U.S.
• Jewish Studies

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Programs evaluated, cont

• Math and CS
• Music
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Spanish

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Templatefor Assessment
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Emorys peers
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What is the North American Title Count?

• Longitudinal and comparative collections resource
  (similar to now defunct AMIGOS product)
• Data collected, through 2001, every four years,
  by subcommittee of ALCTS (Association for Library
  Collections and Technical Services), recently
  taken over by Library Dynamics due to lack of
  funding
• Voluntary participation

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What is the North American Title Count
(continued)?

• Divides up holdings by LC Classification,
  regardless of format
• Electronic items with LC classifications are
  included
• Conversions made for items catalogued by Dewey
• Numerous exceptions may be present
• Unlike ARL, NATC counts titles not volumes
• Single title of journal rather than whole run of
  journal counted
• Unfortunately, different institutions appear each
  year, rendering comparisons difficult

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How to calculate cost?

• Several methods employed, depending on the
  liaison
• Average price of title in discipline (e.g.
  Yankee) X smallest institutional gap
• Average price of title in discipline (e.g.
  Yankee) X mean difference with other institutions

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• Math and CS Report

• Based on information from annual Departmental
  Liaison Plan
• note not all reports were done this way
• Consulted departments website
• Some of this information was outdated!
• Spoke with Chair of Math/CS Department made
  needed corrections
• Included info. about Approval Plan
• My structure differed a little from Template

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• I. Program Overview
• Established department, of moderate size
• 27 regular 5 visiting faculty 34 Ph.D.
  students 14 M.S. students 125 undergraduate
  majors
• Degrees offered B.A., B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
• Ph.D. in Math only at this time
• Ph.D. in Comp Sci has been proposed
• Interdisciplinary programs
• B.A. Math/Economics
• B.A./M.S.P.H. (5-yr. program w/Public Health)
• Ph.D. in Physics/M.S. in Computational Science

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• II. Description of Material Collected
• LC classes mostly QA
• Computer Science QA75.5 - QA76.95with some TKs
  and TJs
• Math rest of the QAs with some Ts, TAs, Qs
• Chronology Dates mostly new works are
  purchased, but gaps should be filled in math
  doesnt go bad!
• Mostly English-language works are collected some
  foreign language (chiefly German, French,
  Russian)
• Primarily from U.S. Great Britain
• Lots of monographs, serials, e-journals
• Not so many e-books, microforms, multimedia
• No Undergraduate Textbooks

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• III. NATC Comparison
• Emory has smallest Math/CS collection overall,
  with 24,019 vols.
• Vanderbilt is next-smallest, with 25,507
  (-1,488)
• Average of the five others (i.e. non-Emory) is
  34,105 (-10,086)
• Univ. of North Carolina is largest, with
  41,312 (-17,293)

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• III. NATC Comparison (2)
• Emory is the 2nd-smallest school in the peer
  group
• Smallest library in peer group (1,272,577 total
  in 2001 NATC)
• Emory had 119.74 volumes per student, 4th of 6
• Chicago had 229.02 (most) NYU had 41.74
• Compares favorably to some peers in some LC
  ranges
• Surpasses some institutions in 2 ranges
• On the other hand, were never above the mean in
  any range
• Came in last in 5 of 7 ranges
• However, in 2 of these, the margin was very
  close
• Average price for math books in FY-2004 82.30
• Cost for Emory to catch up to Vanderbilt
  122,462.40
• Cost 830,077.80 for group average
  1,423,213.90 for UNC

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IV. Rankings Academic Programs/Library
Desirable peers for Math/CS, but did not
participate in 2001 NATC Rankings are taken from
U.S. News World Report, 2004 ed.
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Progress to date

• Completed 19 areas
• Working on 10 1 areas
• Estimated cost for developing the collection
  6,000,000

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Programs that are being evaluated

• African Studies
• African-American Studies
• Biology
• Classics
• Film Studies
• Latin American Caribbean Studies

• Middle Eastern South Asian Studies
• Philosophy
• Music
• Womens Studies
• Environmental Studies