Oct 23 2006
Collection Analysis Primer
I used Deb Kachel’s Collection Analysis Primer from PSLA this morning to really look at the numbers and the standards and where my collection is in relation to where it should be.
Based on collection age, I need to work on decreasing the age of the following: 300s, 340s, 400s, 640s, 800s, 900s, 910s and fiction. Based on circulation, I need to increase the number of volumes (of more current titles) in the 000s, 700s, 900s, and fiction.
Last year, I worked on the 500s and 600s. My plan was to focus on the 900s this year, and I have done some purchasing to meet that need already, but those titles won’t be reflected until I do a new analysis in the early spring.
Fiction is always a focus just because it is such a high volume of our circulation. Because there is little collaboration here, it’s not shocking that our fiction circulates and is used more than non-fiction, but I still wish that would change. Hopefully, working on getting data from teachers on research units they are conducting without my help will enable me to show them where our collection is already meeting their needs and they’ll be more willing/open to using the library instead of bypassing me for the computer labs.
