ReCAP Collections Analysis: Music Library Zack Lane ReCAP Coordinator 11/30/2010

Answers to Basic Questions How many books transferred? What is retrieval rate? Where are Music Library collections delivered? Music Library in overall picture of ReCAP? Who is using Music Library collections? What data are available to look at?

Accession Statistics FY10 : 11,534 FY09 : 2,543 FY08 : 934 Music has accessioned 87,940 items since ReCAP opened in 2002 This accounts for 2.36% of CUL’s total holdings at ReCAP (3.72 million)

Retrievals Total retrievals have typically increased every year and fluctuate monthly in phase with the academic calendar Total deliveries of off-site Music collections to CUL departments: FY10 : 1,966 FY09 : 2,086 FY08 : 1,689 TOTAL (through Oct. 2010) : 13,425 Retrieval Rate : 1.67%

More Request Stats 80.0% of Music Library collections are delivered to Music Circulation 20.0% delivered to other circulation desks or ILL: Butler : 8.20% ILL : 5.82% All others : 4.04% 98.13% of requests for Music Library collections are physical delivery; only 1.87% are EDD

More Request Stats Total deliveries of CUL off-site collections to Music Circulation: FY10 : 1,859 FY09 : 2,019 FY08 : 1,529 TOTAL (through Oct. 2010) : 12,329

More Request Stats 87.2% of ReCAP deliveries to Music Circ are Music-owned collections; 12.8% of deliveries belong to other departments. Other department collections: Butler : 7.45% Lehman : 1.09% Burke : 0.84% Business : 0.40%

Circulation Data available from July 2003 to present (since the inception of Voyager) 95.9% of charges to Music Library collections are from onsite Patron Group OFF is the majority user of all Music Library collections Undergraduates account for 33% of onsite charges but only 21% of offsite

Where to find data? Bibliographic Record Statistics: posted by LITO, give an accurate reflection of item record counts. “Active Holding Records” under “Location Detail” Circulation Statistics: posted by LITO in monthly and cumulative files. Definitions and analysis available on the ReCAP Data Center website. ReCAP Statistics: General resources and analysis posted on the ReCAP Data Center.