March 2002 CURL/RSLP Collection Mapping Project Chris Bailey Acting Director Library Services University of Glasgow

March 2002 About CURL “…to optimise the combined information resources and expertise of the CURL libraries, in partnership with relevant organisations, for the benefit of research scholarship…” “…the development of a national collection mapping strategy…”

March 2002 Concerns… Different communities, different approaches Inconsistent collection description Inconsistencies in retrieval

March 2002 OCLC/Lacey Automated collection analysis software Uses standard classification schemes Maps to Conspectus headings Analysis to title level Institutional analysis Consortial analysis

March 2002 RSLP CURL response to Circular 2000/3 Proposal to co-fund a pilot project on collection mapping using iCas

March 2002 The Project Purpose Partners Process Methodology Preliminary Results

March 2002 Purpose Small pilot project Evaluate the usefulness of the methodology used Provide a cross institutional analysis to compare overlap and uniqueness

March 2002 Partners University of Edinburgh University of Liverpool Imperial College University of Hull SOAS Natural History Museum

March 2002 Process Questionnaire to be submitted by each partner Test file supplied by each partner OPAC upload to OCLC/Lacey Data analysis by OCLC …….approx 9 months in total………

March 2002 Methodology De-duplication Records matched to WorldCat in order to locate an LC classification Conspectus analysis Results provided on CD

March 2002 Results Sent 2,767,669 bibliographic records De-duplication – 2,707,696 records 2,268,225 records analysed – 84%

March 2002 Results…. Edinburgh – 78% analysis Liverpool – 85% analysis Imperial – 74% analysis Hull – 99% analysis SOAS – 92% analysis NHM – 47% analysis

March 2002 Issues… Standard use of standard classification seems OK… Local adaptation of standard classification causes inconsistencies Issues relating to the standards….

March 2002 …watch this space!….

March 2002