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WorldCat Collection Analysis now includes Circulation Analysis

Circulation Analysis, available to individual Collection Analysis subscribers, is a new usage analysis that allows you to see how your collection is being used (or not used) by your patrons.

This information about your collection's usage can inform decisions about weeding, movement to off-site storage, budget allocation, digitization and acquisitions.

Data available within Circulation Analysis includes:

  • Circulation Date
  • Total Checkouts
  • Circulation Frequency
  • Total Titles Circulated
  • Percentage of Titles Circulated
  • Titles Not Circulated
  • Average Checkouts per Title Circulated

How to create a Circulation Analysis

To create a Circulation Analysis in WorldCat Collection Analysis, you must first run a report via your ILS to extract a minimal set of data elements.  See the instructions on what data is required to create a Circulation Analysis and how to submit that data.
 
In conjunction with the other analyses available via Collection Analysis, Circulation Analysis gives you a robust portrait of your collection and can provide critical data to support your collection development and management decisions.  Early feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

View a demo

If you'd like to take a closer look at Circulation Analysis in a "live" environment, please log-on to our demonstration environment using the authorization: 100308921 and the password: azmstaff.

Click the Collection Analysis tab at the top of the page, then click the Circulation Analysis link in the body of the page.

A brief Circulation Analysis Overview webinar is also available for viewing.

(2008 05 16)


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