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The
WorldCat Collection Analysis service helps you
quickly analyze your individual and group library collections. Libraries
with subscriptions to WorldCat on FirstSearch can compare their collections with
thousands of peer institutions that have their holdings in WorldCat. Using the
service, library staff can analyze their collections anytime, without
extensive staff, time or financial resources.
The service provides many benefits to libraries, including:
- Comparison with peer libraries—easily identify strengths, gaps and
overlaps in your collection
- Compare with
pre-defined library groups—use pre-defined groups for
comparison such as HAPLR Public Library rankings, Google 9, US News and
World Report rankings, and more!
- Compare against
authoritative lists—compare against the authoritative
lists from Library Journal, Booklist, Outstanding Academic
Titles, and more from ALA and Reed Business.
- Multiple views of the collection—choose from many parameters, including
subject, publication date, language, format and audience level, to create
views to meet your needs
- Participate in consortia activities—groups can analyze member
collections for more effective collaborative collection development
- Evaluate borrowing and lending data—Compare borrowing requests over time
to identify acquisition priorities and analyze what your library borrows
(items that supplement your collection) or analyze the items your library is
lending (revealing how your collection is used)
- Support library processes—analysis results facilitate acquiring,
weeding, canceling and preserving processes
- Demonstrate fiscal responsibility—reports can be used to prove financial
need and responsible stewardship to administrators and funding bodies
Features include:
- The ability to compare your collection with thousands of institutions
that have their holdings in WorldCat
- Any collection can be analyzed regardless of the type of materials,
classification scheme, library, or the integrated library system used
- Browser interface that’s easy to use from within the staff view of
FirstSearch
- Affordable annual subscription, for predictable pricing
- One-time retrospective or reclamation batchload
at no additional charge
- Reports can be easily exported to other programs like Microsoft Excel
 WorldCat
Collection Analysis for Public Libraries: Public library
professionals are always looking to make the most of materials
acquisition budgets, yet acquiring the information needed to make
informed purchasing decisions can be a complicated and labor-intensive
undertaking.
WorldCat Collection Analysis for public libraries makes quick work
of this task by leveraging existing information about your holdings in
the WorldCat database.
Consulting services available:
MLNC is pleased to consult with your library to help you utilize OCLC’s
WorldCat Collection Analysis service. Collection Analysis can be used to compare
your library’s collection against other libraries of your choice in order to
determine your strengths and weaknesses or to target gaps in your collection.
A library who subscribes to WorldCat Collection Analysis can contract with
MLNC to do one or all of the following tasks on your behalf:
- Set up your library’s comparison groups
- Run analyses of your library’s collection according to your selected
criteria, i.e. age, subject content, uniqueness, language, format
- Provide analytical data in an Excel spreadsheet
- Produce printed graphs of analytical data
MLNC would log on to Collection Analysis using your subscription and account
number in order to perform the chosen consulting activities. Fees are based on
the parameters of the project and are set at an hourly rate.
For more information about WorldCat Collection Analysis:
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