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Resources for College Libraries : What do the Numbers Mean?
Sue BeidlerLycoming College
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Agenda� Overview of Lycoming’s Environment
� Overview of Resources for College Libraries
� What is BBAS (/Bowker’s Book Analysis System)?
� How We Use RCLWeb
� How We Use BBAS
� Discussion
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Overview of Lycoming’s Environment� Lycoming College: private, 4-year, approx.1400
FTE
� Traditional Liberal Arts
� 5 Librarians, 6 support staff
� An active collaborative instruction program that teaches the responsible use of research sources, building the skills to find, evaluate, and integrate information is a key aspect of our mission.
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Overview of Lycoming’s Environment� Local ILS: TLC’s Library•Solution 4.2
� Collection of approx. 155,000 cataloged volumes
� Annual monograph/standing order budget of approximately $120K
� 2,300 new cataloged volumes added annually
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Overview of Resources for College Libraries
� Successor to Books for College Libraries (BCL3)
� Collaborative project between ACRL, CHOICE, and R.R. Bowker
� Available in print and as an online tool (RCLWeb)
� First released in 2006
� Online version is updated quarterly
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Overview of BBAS (Bowker’s Book Analysis System)
� Electronically compares local collection to the RCL database
� Provides array of reports that can be customized� Duplicate titles
� Invalid ISBNs
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Overview of BBAS (Bowker’s Book Analysis System)
� Electronically compares local collection to the RCL database
� Provides array of reports that can be customized� Duplicate titles
� Invalid ISBNs
� Statistical reports by RCL Subjects, LC Classification or
� Core titles in library
� Core titles NOT in library
� Total # of core titles
� % of core titles held
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Lycoming’s Uses for RCLWeb� Evaluating gift books for inclusion in our
collection � Generally do a quick title search in RCLWeb for
possible keepers
� Are likely to keep the book if any edition is in RCL
� Sometimes will also search by author – if there are a number of titles by the author we may keep if the title is curriculum related
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Lycoming’s Current Uses for RCL Book Analysis results
� Retrospective Collection Development –Photography Project� Overview of Project
� Used “Don’t have” list to work from with faculty
� Improved from 27.74% coverage in 2007 to 51.82% coverage in 2008 as a result of this project
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Lycoming’s Current Uses for RCL Book Analysis results
� Weeding/De-selection decisions� Faculty from specific disciplines selected each year
� They’re set loose in the stacks with very general guidelines
� Any items they think should be withdrawn are put on a book truck
� I pull up the list of RCL titles we have in that call number range – anything on the RCL list goes back to the shelves immediately, but is marked that it is in RCL
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Lycoming’s Current Uses for RCL Book Analysis results
� Assessment� Meetings with academic departments regarding the
collection � Sometimes used in preparation for the meeting – a gauge of
strength or weakness
� Sometimes used as follow-up – Mathematical Sciences –even though there was no response from the faculty
� Track changes in our holdings from year to year, by discipline
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Lycoming’s Current Uses for RCL Book Analysis results
� Challenges� Analysis is always done against the current RCL
database
� Must save analyses at the time you run them
� Exported statistics cannot be manipulated
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What do the numbers mean?
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What can the analysis tell us?
� RCLWeb � Book Analysis System
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How would/could we go about developing comparisons with similar size/type libraries?
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How might we determine comparison libraries?
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Contact Information
Sue BeidlerSnowden LibraryLycoming College700 College Place
Williamsport, PA 17701570-321-4084
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