RE: [ALCTS-acqnet] Assessment in Acq?

From: Anderson, Freya N (EED) <freya.anderson_at_alaska.gov> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 19:24:14 +0000 To: "'acqnet_at_lists.ala.org'" <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org>

I’m not sure what kind of assessment you’re talking about, but we track in library use, as well as circs, through our ILS, and use that data to evaluate our paper subscriptions, similar to Dolores’s description for databases below.  For books, we use the same data for weeding and for evaluating our few remaining standing orders.

I look at some of the big, comprehensive options available.  Some look fantastic, but for our small library, every commercial option I’ve seen is both too time-consuming and too expensive.

Freya

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Freya Anderson
Head, Information Services
Alaska State Library
395 Whittier St.
Juneau, AK 99801

907-465-1315

http://library.alaska.gov/

From: Dolores Yilibuw [mailto:acqnet_at_lists.ala.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 6:23 AM
To: acqnet_at_lists.ala.org
Subject: RE: [ALCTS-acqnet] Assessment in Acq?

We are a very small seminary with a very small collection budget.  Hence every year I do a cost per use assessment for our databases to figure out what I might need to let go of, or renegotiate with vendor.  Managing a tiny budget is a constant balancing act between cost and use.

~Dolores
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Dolores Yilibuw
Director
LTS Library<http://lextheo.libguides.com/home>
Lexington Theological Seminary<http://www.lextheo.edu/>
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Suite 300
Lexington, KY 40503
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From: acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org<mailto:acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org> [mailto:acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org] On Behalf Of Stacey Marien
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 8:39 PM
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Subject: [ALCTS-acqnet] Assessment in Acq?

Hello All

I am interested in learning what types of assessment you all have done in your acquisitions department - or what types of assessment would you like to have done?

I'm researching the topic and am looking for examples - in my own department, we assessed all our workflow documentation when we were creating a libguide

Stacey

Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University Library
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20016
smarien_at_american.edu<mailto:smarien_at_american.edu>
202-885-3842<tel:202-885-3842>
orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559<http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559>