Vendor response.
From: "Lins,Glenda" <linsg_at_oclc.org>
I am a product consultant for OCLC's ACAS and want to take this opportunity
to explain ACAS. There are several products that fall under the ACAS
umbrella. We have four types of analysis products. The first, called iCAS,
is the age and content analysis of your collection. For this type of
analysis, we take your bib records either from your local system or OCLC
archive (the choice is yours) and map your call numbers to either the LC or
Dewey WLN Conspectus tables. There are several options you can select for
your basic iCAS and options you can select for secondary analyses such as
language, adult/juvenile, title level. We can analysis collections using
more than one classification scheme. The results, based on the dates/date
ranges you select, are output on a CD-ROM with both graphical and
statistical data of your collection.
The second type of analysis you can select is similar to the above. If you
are part of a consortium and have a shared database, we can analyze your
collections and report the above along with uniqueness and overlap.
The third analysis is comparing your collection with recommended lists. We
currently have access to BCL3, OAT, and Booklist. Your output will be in
electronic format and will provide 4 reports - a statistical summary of the
results; a match list (what you own that is on the list); a close match list
(title matches, but author doesn't) and the miss report (what is in the list
that your library doesn't own. The miss report will provide the descriptive
cataloging information.
The final type of analysis we can currently perform are the Library
Comparisons (gap analyses). You select the libraries you wish to compare
your collections to. You can scope by call numbers/ranges and/or date, or
analyze you entire collection. You do need to select two or more libraries
for this comparison. If you only want to compare with one institution, that
is possible - if we can get the permission of the library. You will receive
the same reports as the list comparisons explain above.
If any of you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you.
Glenda Lins
ACAS Product Consultant
Lacey Product Center
4224 6th Ave. SE
Lacey, WA 98503
800-342-5956, ext. 4056
glenda_lins_at_oclc.org
Received on Fri Feb 23 2001 - 06:03:54 EST