Re: Print Journal Usage Lanell Rabner 01 May 2004 13:06 UTC
All of our non-circulating periodicals are located in our Periodicals reading room, with unbound sitting beside bound issues. We've assigned dummy barcodes to each individual title and posted that barcode, along with the call number and title on the shelf, under each run. Every day student employees use palm pilot scanners to scan the barcodes as they reshelf. This data is uploaded into an SQL database on a monthly basis. Our SQL database contains basic information about each title - title, call number, fund code, subscription status, price and any relevant notes. That database is tied to our ILS with the match point being the journal title control number. That way we can pull renewal prices directly from the ILS every year. We've been using this system since 1999 and have over 25,000 titles listed. We're able to track cost-per-use for each title on a monthly, yearly and cumulative basis. It has provided us with some excellent hard data that has made cancellations, although always painful, much easier. This year we added almost 5,000 electronic titles to our database and will now begin to track the impact of the electronic on the print and thus make even better decisions regarding these resources. Lanell Rabner Electronic Licensing and Resources Coordinator Brigham Young University 2129 HBLL Provo, Utah 84602 801-422-8655 lanell_rabner@byu.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Rachel Ellis Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 2:44 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Print Journal Usage Dear all, at the moment we are considering how to measure the usage of our print journal collection. We have a journal reading room here for the current issues - one part of the room is presented subject focussed and is freely accessible by our patrons. The remaining journals are in the back of the room and the issues wanted have to be fetched by the enquiry staff located in the reading room. Now I was wondering if anyone of you has experiences with print journal usage analysis and is willing to share this with us? Thanks for your help in advance and best wishes from sunny Bremen (Germany)! Rachel --------------------------------------------------- Rachel Ellis Electronic Resources Librarian Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Bremen Postfach 33 01 60 28331 Bremen Germany Tel: (0049)421-218-4902 Fax: (0049)421-218-2665 --------------------------------------------------