71 SPEC Kit 352: Collection Assessment
Collection development librarians and acquisitions staff need to develop the skills and, in some cases,
the intellectual curiosity requisite for sustained collection analysis.
Communicating value to library staff
Create a more centralized role with a focus on collection assessment. Make collection assessment a
systematic, regular, and mandatory process.
Create a more holistic approach.
Develop a proactive rather than largely reactive system of assessment.
Ease in getting data
Ease of extracting and combining data from multiples sources, and at multiple scales
Easier, more uniform data collection, with more consistency from publishers.
Formalize it more and co-locate the data
Fully integrate and capitalize on usage, finance, ROI data into our e-resources renewal, decision-
making processes.
Going forward we want to focus more assessment on print collections. We are also going to hire an
assessment librarian so that we have a person to help with many kinds of assessments, as currently time
to spend on assessment is a challenge.
I would increase personnel support for collection assessment.
I would like to have dedicated staff to run tabulations and to format the data for public and
library sharing.
I would make usage data and assessment available as an ongoing service to our liaison librarians.
I would successfully integrate our bibliographers more fully into the assessment process.
Ideally there would be more staff time available for the collection assessment process so that it could be
done more systematically.
Improve consistency of data (both internal and external)
It would be easier to gather and combine electronic resource usage data.
More automation and easier access
More funding would be useful.
More people dedicated to collection assessment, better technical infrastructure to manage the process,
and improved data quality connected to acquisitions and cataloging processes.
More reliable data
More resources devoted specifically to collection assessment.
More staff/librarian resources, more software, more recognition of the extreme amount of work that
goes in to the process of collection assessment
More systematic and centralized
Reporting data
Since the Collection Assessment Librarian is relatively new and first of its kind, processes that existed
before the position have changed on their own (i.e., collecting and analyzing usage and pricing data
has become centralized curation and dissemination of what’s new and changed has been regularized
and centralized). Other processes have not changed much (i.e., heads of libraries spearhead weeding
projects with support from the collections team). What is changing is capacity. The more work the
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