From:
"Brunskill, Amelia" <ABRUNSKI_at_depaul.edu>
ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group
Title: Revealing information about our collections: Taking a closer look
Sunday, June 30th from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
McCormick Place Convention Center N140
Add this event to your Annual schedule: _http://ala13.ala.org/node/10850_
This program will highlight four different approaches to evaluating and
assessing collections: A focused study using citation analysis, a
detailed study of ILL requests and circulation data, a consortia wide
strategy to provide members with ways to analyze their collections and
also an analysis of usage by platform, comparing a locally created
platform with a publisher created one.
Here are abstracts for the four sessions:
*Using SCOPUS To Study Citing Behavior For Collection Development*
/Irene Ke, Psychology & Social Work Librarian/
/University of Houston/
With increasingly restricted budgetary conditions and greater emphasis
on accountability, it is important that we still continue to enhance the
quality and relevancy of our collections and generate evidence that
links our collections to campus scholarly output. Citation analysis can
help us do both. Our study took advantage of features in SCOPUS to make
the work of citation analysis much less time-intensive. It aimed to
examine how psychology researchers use information for their work and
how the library collections have contributed to the university's
scholarly output by analyzing the references cited in articles
published by psychology researchers at the University of Houston over
the past 10 years.
*Using Acquisitions, Circulation, and ILL Data to Study Collection
Practices *
/Forrest E. Link, Acquisitions Librarian
The College of New Jersey Library/
Librarians at TCNJ wanted to assess how well recent acquisitions were
meeting user needs and learn what ILL requests might reveal concerning
deficits in our collection. To do this, we extracted circulation data
for titles purchased between 2008 and 2012 with imprint dates of
2007-2011 and OCLC ILL user statistics for the past four fiscal years
(July 2008-June 2012) with imprints from 2007 onward. While the initial
goal was to discover the conditions under which ILL demand-driven
acquisitions might be appropriate, in the process of gathering and
analyzing data further questions arose concerning our assumptions about
what ILL data reveals about both our collections and our borrowers.
*What's the Big Deal? Collection Evaluation at the National Level*
/Eva Jurczyk, Member Services & Licensing Officer
Canadian Research Knowledge Network/
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is a partnership of 75
universities dedicated to expanding digital content for the university
research enterprise in Canada. This presentation will discuss two
assessment methodologies that allow member institutions to evaluate
their participation in consortia Big Deals, and to identify key journals
for their institutions. The first method assesses the cost-per-use of
high use journals in a big deal package and the second method, modified
from the methodology set out by the California Digital Library, assesses
journal packages by measuring the quality, utility, and value of
individual titles.
*Mine or theirs, where do users go? A comparison of collection usage at
locally hosted platforms versus publisher platforms
*/Juleah Swanson, Acquisitions Librarian for Electronic Resources
Ohio State University Libraries/
This presentation will share research on recent trends in usage of
electronic content by platform, comparing patron usage at a publisher
platform, Elsevier's Science Direct, to patron usage of the same content
at a locally hosted platform, OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center. From
the data, this presentation will open up a discussion on whether there
is a continued place for locally hosted digital collections in our
libraries; as well as what the long term implications are for relying on
publisher platforms for our collections.
Amelia Brunskill
Electronic Resources Librarian
DePaul University
2350 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
(773)325-7686
abrunski_at_depaul.edu
Received on Wed Jun 12 2013 - 03:04:04 EDT