Align library collections with institutional goals and priorities

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Choreo Insights is an extensive library analytics solution that uses WorldCat holdings data to align academic library collections with institutional focus areas, emerging curriculum priorities, and future trends.

Further institutional goals and objectives

Investigate overlaps, gaps, and combined collections to ensure optimal resource availability for faculty and students.

Assess collection gaps against authoritative title lists, publisher lists, locally-supplied title lists, and recommended title lists.

Identify cost-saving opportunities between libraries, groups, and consortia to reduce redundancy and relieve budget pressures.

Add shared print analysis to collection planning. Choreo provides the ability for you to analyze your collection from a shared print perspective. This enables you to see the retention status of titles in your collection and whether they are retained by any of the major shared print programs. Continually updated, it allows you to track retention setting activity in WorldCat for collections of interest.

“I would strongly recommend Choreo Insights as an essential tool to any academic institution in need of assessment and collection development analysis to build complementary and interdependent collections.”

Dr. Liladhar R. Pendse
Librarian for East European and Latin American Studies

Collection comparisons with immediate insights

Choreo Insights compares your monographs and serials collections with other institutions around the world in seconds. And it’s not limited to one-time reports and static snapshots. This means enhanced local collection development and cooperative opportunities to address shared goals. You can use a predefined set of institutions, build out a saved list based on a consortium, or create an ad-hoc group comparison for resource sharing evaluations or other creative ideas.

Gap query with FAST: Choreo Insights gives you the ability to see gaps in your library’s collection when comparing against peer institutions.

Overlap with CIP: Being able to sort and search by CIP (Classification of Instructional Program) code gives libraries the ability to map collections to academic programs.

Distinct query: Choreo Insights gives you the ability to swiftly and easily see what is unique to your library when compared to another institution.

Screenshot: Gap Analysis with LC and Publication Year

Gap analysis with LC and publication year: Choreo Insights leverages WorldCat data and gives you the ability to filter results using various criteria such as LC (Library of Congress) and publication year.

Gap query with FAST: Choreo Insights gives you the ability to see gaps in your library’s collection when comparing against peer institutions.

Overlap with CIP: Being able to sort and search by CIP (Classification of Instructional Program) code gives libraries the ability to map collections to academic programs.

Distinct query: Choreo Insights gives you the ability to swiftly and easily see what is unique to your library when compared to another institution.

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“The Choreo [Insights] interface is just so easy to use. It’s more intuitive to be able to run some simple collections analysis and just kind of play around, whereas with other systems, there’s always this concern that you’re going to run a report and break something.”

Heather Grevatt
Assistant Professor and Librarian
Boise State University

See how your collection stacks up

Choreo Insights is the only product on the market that libraries can use to do deep subject analysis of their print and electronic collections, enabled by WorldCat. You can map your monographs and serials collections directly to academic programs using CIP (Classification of Instructional Program) codes. You can also use Library of Congress classifications, FAST subject headings, and more to see how collections stack up. Additional options will be added on an ongoing basis.

Build better collections with WorldCat intelligence

With Choreo Insights, you can easily compare your collections with other institutions around the world in seconds. It’s not limited to one-time reports or static snapshots. This means enhanced collection development and cooperative opportunities to address your institutional goals. Contact us to learn more.