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

2. 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?

3. 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)

6. 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%

7. 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

9. 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

10. 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%

11. 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

15. 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.