1. Social Work Library and ReCAP: FY13 Update and Statistics
Zack Lane
ReCAP Coordinator
July 2013
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2. Data Available Four basic categories of data
Accessions
Requests
Delivery
Circulation
Detailed information can be found at the ReCAP Data Center
Website now includes introductory presentations for all basic categories AND analysis
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3. Social Work CLIO Locations
How CUL demarcates collections
off,swx : Social Work general collections (circ)
CLIO Beta:
CLIO Legacy:
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4. Accessions/Requests by CLIO Location
TOTAL : 41,359 / 11,008
(Request Rate 2.68%)
off,swx : 41,359 / 11,008 (2.68%)
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5. Accessions View of Social Work Library accessions by fiscal year
Primary transfer projects was in (?prior to transition to new Social Work building?)
Accessions since 2010 have involved further smart barcoding projects
Detailed information on project may be found on Social Work/ReCAP website
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7. Request Requests begin immediately after transfer
Monthly request volumes in phase with academic calendar
Data for lower-use collections is noisy
Staff processing requests are included
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12. EDD (Electronic Document Delivery)
Volume of EDDs has risen sharply but fallen off recently
More EDDs are for monographs
System-wide trend has been downward
After a peak in FY06 the volume of Social Work EDDs has declined
Over the past four years the number of EDDs has leveled out
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14. Delivery
Items physically delivered to Social Work Library circulation desk
Increasing volume of requests for other department’s collections
Requests for collections outpace deliveries to Social Work Circulation by more that 2 to 1
Workload pushes to other departments, primarily Butler
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18. Request Rate Request rate is a measure of collection usage
It is the percentage of ReCAP collections requested during a twelve-month period
Provides staff one way to gauge overall use of offsite collections
Request rate is one factor used to structure ReCAP facility staffing model
Patron access to offsite collections is excellent: dynamic with few failures
Measured two ways:
Annual
Lifespan
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20. More Data Available
More information and data can be found on the Social Work/ReCAP website
ReCAP Data Center includes more information about system-wide data and special projects
Tailored data sets and analysis will be provided to staff via the ReCAP Coordinator
Please see the main ReCAP website for general information about CUL procedures and systems
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