Presented at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference in Toronto, Ontario on February 3, 2012.

2. Context
0 academic library
0 data-driven
0 specific examples
0 sharing my practice
© Alpha six

3. making a connection
patrons resources
© Alexandre Dulaunoy

4. whose perspective?
library
collection
selectors
library
staff
students
faculty
library
admin
university
admin

5. who chooses?
resource
patrons
vendors
librarians

6. books
© CCAC North Library

7. inputs
0 Internal
0 Curriculum
0 Research
0 Patron requests
0 Internal workflows
0 Budget

8. inputs
0 External
0 Reviews
0 Publishing
statistics
0 Vendor features
0 Cost
0 Packaged content

9. wasted words?
0 Foundation
0 Living document
0 Accountability
0 Transparency
0 Succession planning
Slide title in reference to: Snow, R. (1996). Wasted words: The written collection development policy and the
academic library. Journal Of Academic Librarianship, 22(3), 191.

10. interlibrary loan requests

11. make data more usable

12. interlibrary loan requests

13. outputs
0 Circulation statistics
0 Usage statistics
© Gypsy999

14. circulation statistics
Circulation report for items ordered during 2008-2011 sorted by LC subclass with
highest percentage of items circulating
LC CLASSIFICATION
# ITEMS
PURCHASED
# ITEMS
WITH
CIRC
TOT CIRC
2008-2011 CIRC/ITEM
% ITEMS
WITH CIRC
HA Theory of soc. sci. statistics 38 33 147 3.9 86.8%
RD Surgery 14 12 49 3.5 85.7%
PE 1128 Readers, etc., for
foreign students 56 46 363 6.5 82.1%
MT Music instruction and study 80 61 200 20.1 76.3%
RJ Pediatrics 154 116 553 18.2 75.3%
KZ Law of nations 20 15 104 5.2 75.0%
DL History of Scandinavia 23 17 194 8.4 73.9%
G 155-156 Travel. Tourism. 134 97 642 10.5 72.4%
JL Pol. institutions & public
admin. (Canada, Latin Am.) 42 30 229 6.2 71.4%

15. finding collection gaps
Circulation Statistics by LC Classification: May 2008 - April 2011
DK - History of History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet
Republics
Publication Year No. Titles Tot Circ
No. Circ/No.
Titles Percent Circ
pre-1960 99 3886 39.3 13%
1960-1969 238 9381 39.4 31%
1970-1979 131 6269 47.9 21%
1980-1989 119 4210 35.4 14%
1990-1999 140 4727 33.8 15%
2000-2009 142 2054 14.5 7%
2010- 3 4 1.3 0%

16. …but wait…
0 Ebook package includes titles in Russian history
0 27 titles with at least 1 download request, 16 of these
published in 2000s
0 Total downloads = 797
0 Collection gaps being filled by consortial ebook
purchases?

17. use by format
Usage in 2009-2010 by format of selected UTP and MQUP titles
at Brock in the Canadian Publishers Collection
Electronic Print Both Neither
# Titles used 81 138 55 137

18. renewal decision: ebook
package
COUNTER USAGE DATA ANALYSIS
Total full text requests 4163
Total number of titles in collection 131
Average requests/title 31.8
Total titles with at least one request 39
Percent titles with at least one request 30%
COST/USE DATA
Cost of package $407
Cost/Title Used $10.85
Cost/Full text request $0.10

19. use by readership level
Usage by Readership Level
Readership Level (source: Coutts OASIS)
% Titles
Used
Graduate - Research 73.5%
General - Academic 0.3%
Upper Undergraduate Graduate - Research 16.3%
General - Popular 1.7%
Upper Undergraduate 11.6%
Upper Undergraduate General - Popular 0.6%
Blank 0.6%

20. journals
© Spinstah

21. inputs
0 Internal
0 Curriculum
0 Research
0 Patron requests
0 Internal workflows
0 Budget
0 Faculty publications
0 Citation analyses

22. search faculty publications

23. narrow by subject

24. analyze by source

25. faculty publications
Source Titles Record Count Brock Holdings
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 14 1980-
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY 12 1973-
JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE 9 1972-
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH 7 1980-
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY 7 1973-
PERCEPTION 7 1999-
CHILD DEVELOPMENT 6 1930-
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 6 1969-
GAIT POSTURE 6 1995-
JOURNAL OF SPORT EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY 6 1979-
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS 6 1975-
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 6 1964-

26. inputs
0 External
0 Bibliometrics
0 Packaged content
0 Mergers and
Acquisitions
0 Cost
0 Open Access

27. outputs
0 Usage statistics
(COUNTER)
0 Link resolver statistics
0 Libguides statistics
0 Web analytics

28. aggregated journal stats

30. identify collection gaps
GAPS AS IDENTIFIED VIA SFX QUERY 12:
' ITEMS REQUESTED WITH NO FULL TEXT'
ISSN & Journal Title 2009 2010 Total Brock Holdings
1056-4993 Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of
North America 560 241 801 RJ 499 A1 C415 v.16 no.2 2007
0006-4971 Blood 388 388 776 12 month embargo
0306-3674 British Journal of Sports Medicine 354 273 627 1964-2006
1050-642X Clinical journal of sport medicine 373 200 573 print 1991-1997
1054-8408 Journal of travel & tourism marketing 371 194 565 print 1992-1993
0966-0461 British journal of nursing 381 182 563 1999-2005
0161-4681 Teachers College record 348 170 518 1999-2006

31. follow up

32. subscribe to dropped title?
0 Tools:
0 SFX query 12
0 Faculty publications
0 ILL requests
0 JCR Impact factor
0 Decision not to subscribe – note to revisit in 12 months

33. databases
0 Inputs – internal &
external
0 Outputs - usage data
0 Complications
0 Aggregator drop & adds
0 Mergers & acquisitions
0 Overlapping content
© dfulmer

34. CHADWYCK
HEALEY
PROQUESTEBSCO
WILEY BACKFILE SOLD
SEPARATELY
WILEY
US @ OCUL!
PRINT!!
what a librarian sees…

35. what a student sees…

36. what an administrator sees…

38. overlap analysis
0 Compare packages of titles
0 Look at unique titles
0 Also look at unique
holdings
0 Tools: Scholars Portal
SCOT, Gold Rush
0 What gives a database
value?
0 Publisher-based
0 Subject-based
0 Unique titles
0 Unique indexing

39. future case study
0 What is the future of A&I’s in the age of discovery
layers and Google Scholar?
0 Chen, X. (2010). The Declining Value of Subscription-
based Abstracting and Indexing Services in the New
Knowledge Dissemination Era. Serials Review, 36(2),
79-85. doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2010.02.010

40. putting it all together
0 Renewal time – yearly review of resources
0 Budget-driven adjustments needed
0 QAF (Quality assurance framework) self-study
0 New liaison librarians
0 New faculty
0 New courses
0 New funding

41. conclusions
0 evidence helps make and defend decisions
0 evidence reveals access & discovery issues
0 local context is important
0 continually reprioritize rather than maintain a static
collection
0 data already harvested and analyzed will aid decision
making for both anticipated & unanticipated
situations
0 make data meaningful and share it

42. …we’ll get there…
0 Thank you for listening
0 Your ideas?
0 Contact me:
0 pjacobs@brocku.ca
0 905-688-5550 x3961