• Collections & Technical Services
• Feb 07
• Issue: 209

WorldCat Collection Analysis - December 2006 Enhancements

WorldCat Collection Analysis now offers new Predefined Peer Groups for comparing your libraries' collections to renowned collections by subject or user-population served.

The new groups include:

• HAPLR Public Library Rankings - a list of the best public libraries broken-down by the population size they serve (i.e. 100-250K).
• Top US Nursing Programs - a list of the best collections in nursing subdivided by specialty (i.e. Mental Health Nursing).
• Google 9 - the nine institutions currently participating in the Google Book Project.

WorldCat Collection Analysis will continue to add Predefined Peer Groups to better enable subscribers to assess their collection and collection development policies.

In addition to the new additional Predefined Peer Groups, ILL enhancements have also been added to WorldCat Collection Analysis. This new data is based on WorldCat Resource Sharing statistics, and gives subscribers the ability to analyze WorldCat Resource Sharing borrowing and lending trends to reveal more about how your collections are being used, and what gaps are most important to your library's patrons. For the details about the ILL enhancements, please see the article in the Resource Sharing section of this issue of Status Line.

For more information about World Cat Collection Analysis, contact Donna Dixon (dixond@nylink.org) or Lauren Pinsley (pinsleyl@nylink.org) at Nylink. You may also wish to visit http://www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis.

[OCLC - edited by Lauren Pinsley, OCLC Services Manager, Nylink]

Collections & Technical Services Contact Information

Please contact Lauren Pinsley (pinsleyl@nylink.org), Lynne Graziadei (graziadeil@nylink.org) or Mary Edgerton (edgertonm@ nylink.org) at Nylink with any questions. They are available via email or phone (518-443-5444/800-342-3353).