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Course description
WorldCat Collection Analysis allows you to evaluate your library's collection in order to reveal its strengths, gaps, and overlaps in comparision to the holdings of peer libraries and institutions contributing to the WorldCat database. Ongoing access to new and updated reports allows for a continuous examination of your collection development activities. These reports will assist libraries in making knowledable decisions based such factors as age, language, material format, and audience level of their collections. Particpants will learn how to use WorldCat Collection Analysis for peer and group comparisons, comparison to the WorldCat database, comparison to their interlibrary loan statistics, and comparisons to lists and predefined groups.
Online workshops use WebEx, an easy-to-use virtual meeting technology. Attendees will receive as part of their confirmation the necessary logon information, links to course materials and telephone number (used for the audio portion of training). This confirmation will be sent out prior to the workshop.
Perfect for
New users as well as those institutions interested in learning more about the WorldCat Collection Analysis service.
Why take this course?
Whether you are a part of an academic, public, corporate, special library or information center, you can learn how to analyze your library's holdings in WorldCat. These continually updated analyzes provided by WorldCat Collection Analysis will allow you to make informed decisions concerning acquisitions, weeding, cancellation, preservation, and digital scanning.
What you will learn
How to identify strengths, gaps, overlaps in your collection
To analyze your collection by subject, publication date, language, format, and audience level
To compare your collection to other OCLC member libraries and predefined groups
To generate and export reports for collection development use
Compare borrowing requests based on age, subject, format to your collection
Analyze what items have been borrowed to supplement your collection
Analyze what items have been lent to see how your collection has been used
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Course details
Course: O 903
Duration: 2 Hours
Fee:
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50.00 |
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75.00 |
Instructor:
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