Hello, colleagues.
I am looking to do a major quantitative research project on sabbatical next
year, involving analyzing the circulation pattern of print books over time
at a title and LC class level.
I have my own institution's data but would like to have at least one more,
ideally a library/system much larger than my own (we're a 4,200 FTE school).
I've been finding it very hard so far to find the kind of data set I need
as far back as I need, as it seems most libraries seem to lose the
granularity of their circ transaction data when they change ILS systems.
This is what I need. If you have this kind of data for your institution and
would be interested in sharing it with me in exchange for my providing an
analysis on it for you, please contact me offlist.
- Institution size: at least 20,000 undergrad FTE (plus whatever grad
students you have)
- Primarily English-language collection, ideally in North America or a
Commonwealth country
- Data per book title (could be volume):
- Either raw circulation transaction data or if summary counts at
worst a calendar year summation for at least 10 years back, ideally 20 or
more
- ISBN, Title, LC Call Number, and Publication Year
I do NOT need any information about the patrons involved in the
transactions, so no privacy issues. My research is focused on collection
subject use, not patron behavior per se (aside from of course the behavior
of actually checking a book out).
My research is going to involve both print and ebook usage, so if you
happen to have what I need in print AND also have at least 7 years' of
COUNTER data on a substantial (5,000+ titles) ebook collection as well, I
could provide you an even more interesting subject analysis of your
patrons' monograph usage trends. But at this point I'd be happy to get the
print data set alone.
Thank you for considering this request.
Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi_at_upei.ca 902-566-0581
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Received on Mon Aug 19 2019 - 13:53:22 EDT