Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The University of Maryland Libraries-College Park is undertaking a massive collection analysis to identify the strengths of its various collections, to comprehensively analyze the use of its print collections with the goal of identifying items that could be moved to an off site licarion, and reduce the footprint of the print collectioins. Their assessment coordinator discusses using their library system (Aleph) and the OCLC WorldShare Manaagement System's collections analysis capbility. She focuses on the kinds of information and data generated to suport the collection analysis performed by subject librarians as part of their data driven decision making. Librarians from the Brooklyn Public Library share their collection analysis experience using Collection HQ and Tableau to generate data to drive decision-making.