A Critical Examination of the Assessment Analysis Capabilities of OCLC ACAS

Lyons, Lucy

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2005.08.001

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“…This led to underreporting of data in WorldCat for North Carolina State in comparison with what appears in the OPAC for that institution. Lyons (2005) examines OCLC's Automated Collection Assessment and Analysis Services, a predecessor to the WCA. She comprehensively lays out the capabilities of this tool in terms of analyzing size of collections, age of collection, growth of collections, title overlap and uniqueness of collections.…”

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Collection analysis to enhance funding for research materials

Culbertson

Wilde²

2009

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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the use of the WorldCat Collection Analysis tool and other measurements to analyze the strengths of collections supporting doctoral programs in a Carnegie Class 1 research university in order to enhance budgetary support for these collections.Design/methodology/approachIn 2006 the Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries were asked to assess the library's support of doctoral programs in 12 key discipline areas. Peer institutions were selected and permission was obtained to access relevant statistics from their collection at the Libraries using the Collection Analysis tool, and relevant metrics for analyzing journal holdings. Use of the metrics for analysis of monograph and journal holdings and comparison of holdings between institutions is examined.FindingsThis case study analyzes how results obtained through use of the Collection Analysis tool and measurements of journal holdings were integrated with results from the broader analysis to achieve a valid comparison between strengths of collections. The authors then look at how this analysis was translated into requests for additional funding for access to materials that would support doctoral level research.Originality/valueThis paper shows how currently available tools for collection management can be used to educate a university community about the budgetary requirements of building graduate research level collections and to make a case for increased funding to support these collections.

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Collection analysis to enhance funding for research materials

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Wilde²

2009

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“…WCA uses OCLC's conspectus, which shares a lineage with the RLG and WLN conspectuses developed during the 1980s and 1990s, respectively, to provide subject analysis of the data (OCLC, 2010a). The Western Library Network, developers of the WLN conspectus, merged with OCLC in 1999 and created the OCLC/ Amigos Collection Analysis CD and Automated Collection Assessment and Analysis Services/iCAS (Lyons, 2005), both predecessors to WCA. The Research Libraries Group ceased supporting and updating the RLG conspectus in 1997 (Lange & Wood, 2000) and merged with OCLC in 2006(OCLC, 2012; however, the five RLG collecting levels and methodology used with the RLG conspectus are still Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 36 (2012) widely used in collection analysis (Johnson, 2009) and often included in collection development policies (Evans & Saponaro, 2005).…”

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Benchmarking mechanical engineering collections using the WorldCat Collection Analysis tool

Hubbard

Neville

2012

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

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The WorldCat Collection Analysis (WCA) tool was utilized to benchmark engineering monograph collections generally and mechanical engineering in depth. This was accomplished by quantitatively comparing the collections of 13 aspirational peer institutions and assessing local holdings based on those benchmarks. This study also explored trends in print and ebook engineering monograph holdings from 2005 to 2010. In addition to benchmarking, limitations and challenges of using WCA and aspirational peers are also discussed.

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Assessing Art Books Using the Conspectus Approach

Kwok

2012

Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of Nort

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A Critical Examination of the Assessment Analysis Capabilities of OCLC ACAS

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Collection analysis to enhance funding for research materials

Collection analysis to enhance funding for research materials

Benchmarking mechanical engineering collections using the WorldCat Collection Analysis tool

Assessing Art Books Using the Conspectus Approach

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