52 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Please briefly describe any other collection assessment method your library has or plans to use.
N=13
Altmetrics data collection, in-house use data
Collections analysis by call number
Comparison with course lists from the university bookstore
Have just started several evidence-based pilots. Will look at use.
Participating in a CRKN initiative to look at journals, based on usage statistics, citation analysis for the
institution, and faculty indication of required journals.
Ratio of circulation to ILL borrowing statistics for books
Several years ago, we evaluated multi-year acquisitions on our central approval plan for English-
language print books, analyzing average cost per book circulation by publisher. We also carried out
a broader study of print monograph usage across the library system. The study looked at 20 years
of circulation data and, among other things, tracked cohorts of books acquired in a single year over
multiple years, which revealed a rather long (12-year) interval during which books in a cohort are
actively charged out for the first time. The print usage study also included analysis of circulation by
various patron demographics, which were captured (and anonymized) in a single-day circulation
“snapshot.”
Sustainable Collection Services GreenGlass, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Gold Rush
We are actively developing an organizational structure, functional set of responsibilities, and
procedures to support a more formal program for collection assessment.
We are developing a tool that should help us consolidate the various data sets we have about our
collections and generate reports from the relationships between all of the data.
We are going to do a survey started at the University of Montreal, where you look at the top cited
journals in various disciplines, you ask the faculty their top 10 journals in their field, and then you
compare both to the usage statistics. This can help you identify what journal you need and which you
might discontinue subscribing to. We plan to do this next fall.
We did an in-depth study of our big deal journal packages and also studied the correlations between
COUNTER use data and click-through data from our A-Z lists and faculty citation data.
We plan to increase assessment of e-book use.
41. For each of the commercial collection analysis tools listed below, please indicate whether your
library currently uses it, previously (but not currently) used it, has never used it, and/or would be
interested in using it in the future. Check all that apply. N=65
Tool Currently
use
Previously (but not
currently) used
Never
used
Would be
interested in using
N
YBP Gobi Peer Groups 30 11 14 11 63
OCLC Collection Evaluation/Analysis
System
9 33 15 6 62
ProQuest’s Intota Assessment 12 1 36 11 60
Bowker Book Analysis System 0 9 47 3 59
Other tool 16 5 8 7 32
Total Respondents 43 42 54 25 65
Please briefly describe any other collection assessment method your library has or plans to use.
N=13
Altmetrics data collection, in-house use data
Collections analysis by call number
Comparison with course lists from the university bookstore
Have just started several evidence-based pilots. Will look at use.
Participating in a CRKN initiative to look at journals, based on usage statistics, citation analysis for the
institution, and faculty indication of required journals.
Ratio of circulation to ILL borrowing statistics for books
Several years ago, we evaluated multi-year acquisitions on our central approval plan for English-
language print books, analyzing average cost per book circulation by publisher. We also carried out
a broader study of print monograph usage across the library system. The study looked at 20 years
of circulation data and, among other things, tracked cohorts of books acquired in a single year over
multiple years, which revealed a rather long (12-year) interval during which books in a cohort are
actively charged out for the first time. The print usage study also included analysis of circulation by
various patron demographics, which were captured (and anonymized) in a single-day circulation
“snapshot.”
Sustainable Collection Services GreenGlass, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Gold Rush
We are actively developing an organizational structure, functional set of responsibilities, and
procedures to support a more formal program for collection assessment.
We are developing a tool that should help us consolidate the various data sets we have about our
collections and generate reports from the relationships between all of the data.
We are going to do a survey started at the University of Montreal, where you look at the top cited
journals in various disciplines, you ask the faculty their top 10 journals in their field, and then you
compare both to the usage statistics. This can help you identify what journal you need and which you
might discontinue subscribing to. We plan to do this next fall.
We did an in-depth study of our big deal journal packages and also studied the correlations between
COUNTER use data and click-through data from our A-Z lists and faculty citation data.
We plan to increase assessment of e-book use.
41. For each of the commercial collection analysis tools listed below, please indicate whether your
library currently uses it, previously (but not currently) used it, has never used it, and/or would be
interested in using it in the future. Check all that apply. N=65
Tool Currently
use
Previously (but not
currently) used
Never
used
Would be
interested in using
N
YBP Gobi Peer Groups 30 11 14 11 63
OCLC Collection Evaluation/Analysis
System
9 33 15 6 62
ProQuest’s Intota Assessment 12 1 36 11 60
Bowker Book Analysis System 0 9 47 3 59
Other tool 16 5 8 7 32
Total Respondents 43 42 54 25 65
