Collaborative Collection Development Project

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Collaborative Collection Development
Project Mary Sue Lovett, St. Olaf College
(lovett_at_stolaf.edu) Kristi Wermager, Carleton
College (kwermage_at_carleton.edu) Carol Eyler,
Carleton College (ceyler_at_carleton.edu) Sarah
Johnston, St. Olaf College (johnsts_at_stolaf.edu)
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The Bridge The Catalog of the Carleton and St.
Olaf College Libraries
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• Some Basic Goals
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•   Build a richer shared collection than either
  college could
• develop alone
• Two collections operating as one
• ? Analyze collection strengths,
  weaknesses, unique materials
• and use
•   Identify areas for increased cooperation
  subject or
• language collections, journals, government
  documents
•   Explore related possibilities for cooperation
  collection
• storage options, coordinated weeding
  projects,
• workflow analysis
•   Work with faculty to develop shared CD
  policies for targeted
• areas
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• Steps Prior to the Mellon Grant
• Online Databases
• Serials Review
• Book Ordering Procedures

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WCA WorldCat Collection Analysis Powered by
OCLC WorldCat, the worlds most comprehensive
bibliographic database, the service enables you
to compare your collection (or your groups
collection) to those of other institutions that
have holdings in WorldCat.
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Further analysis and statistics WCA
overview Innovative and our in-house
experts Carol Eyler Eric Hinsdale Sarah
Johnston
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• Compiled Access Document (Eric)
• Three initial subcategories for further analysis
• Modern Philosophy B790-9999
•          Economic History Conditions HC1-9999
•          Literature on Music ML1-9999 
• Set up Moodle Account
• Created Log
• Created Working Statistics
• Circulation Statistics Item level (Sarah)
• Circulation Statistics bib. Level (Carol)

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• Some Complicating Factors
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• OCLC holdings may not be current
• Preference for paperbacks (St. Olaf) v.
  hardbacks (Carleton)
• skews overlap rates downward
•   Carletons III use data from 1995 forward (11
  yrs) St. Olafs use
• data from 1997 forward (9 yrs)
•   In-house use tracking likely inconsistent
•   LC classification growth/drift
•   Order data not retained consistently, so
  difficult to analyze by
• fund,requestor, price paid, etc.
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Collaborative Collection Development
Project Questions??