RE: [ALCTS-acqnet] How to show value - pictorial

I've always wanted to do a graphic that shows the size of our collection next to something like the Empire State Building. For instance, 100,000 books stacked up to the sky at 1 inch per book equals 8,333 ft.  The Empire State Building is 1,454  feet tall.

So, the value would be to visually show how big of a collection your department manages.

Another thing I have seen on some receipts printed at public libraries is showing the $ saved by checking books out as opposed to buying them.

For tech services, we could show the cost of the books purchased in a year, and then multiply each book's price by the # of times it circulated, to show the combined cost savings to individuals who used the books.

So, you could somehow show:  The library spent $10,000 on books this year. If all the people of Smith County who checked out a book instead bought their own copy, that would have come to $xyz,000. Look how much we saved the people of Smith County!

-Karen Gelles
Greenley Library
Farmingdale State College


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Please share with the list!


Tracey Thompson | Collection Manager
Collection Management Department
Pierce County Library System
3005 112th St E
Tacoma, WA 98446-2215
Direct: 253-548-3609 |  Main: 253-548-3300
www.piercecountylibrary.org<http://www.piercecountylibrary.org/>



From: acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org [mailto:acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org] On Behalf Of Stacey Marien
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Subject: [ALCTS-acqnet] How to show value - pictorial

Hello Acquisitions colleagues

Have any of you been asked to show the value of Acquisitions or Technical Services for that matter in pictorial form?  A chart, graph, pie, etc on the value of the work you do?  If so, I'm looking for examples.

stacey

Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University Library
smarien_at_american.edu<mailto:smarien_at_american.edu>
202-885-3842
orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559<http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559>