Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth

6/4/99


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Table of Contents

Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Outline

Collection Development for Serials

Past CD Projects

Why Do a Use Study?

Use Study Parameters

Barcoding Project

Partners Needed for a Use Study

Circulation’s Part of Use Study

Circulation’s Workflow Changes

Consulting Statistician

Systems Librarian

Computer Center

Serials Unit

What is NCLive

Advent of NCLive into the Use Study

NCLive’s Impact

What We did with NCLive

NCLive Wish List (Ideas to Make It More Useful)

PPT Slide

The Collection Development Data and Database

Creating a Collection Development Database

Types of Data Gathering

Gathering Use Data from Innopac (Done at the end of each Semester)

Downloading Procedures

How the Data Looks from Innopac

How We Want Data to Look

Massaging and Cleaning Up Data

Cleaning Up after Successfully Downloading

Collecting other Data from Innopac

Data Collected Only for MS Access database

Tables in MS Access

Major Indexing of MS Access

NCLive Table http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/hottopic/nclive/titles/titles.htm

Subject Table

Problems Encountered So Far

Clean Up Projects

Collection Development Reports

Show and Tell

Future Uses of the Data

Response to Change

Outline

Author: Hunter Library

Email: ellern@wcu.edu