Reducing Unintentional Duplication: Adventures and Opportunities in Cooperative Collection Development

Analyze This: Usage and Your Collection

“…The implementation and details of the effort to reduce print book duplication are, of course, more complex, but, ultimately, duplication has decreased. 3 This reduction in duplication has allowed each library to purchase a greater number of unique items, while continuing to meet the needs of campus users. Titles that are duplicated are heavily used -on average 71 percent of duplicated items circulated within four years.…”