Using circulation data for the assessment of book and periodical acquisitions

What is circulation? A “check-out” Usage (partial) –Students, and all borrowers –Interlibrary loan Imperfect measure –Not (comprehensive) in-library use –Don’t know how useful item was A measurable indicator, reflective of overall usage trends; a guide

Periodicals VENDORCOSTDPTINDCIRIUTITLE EBSCO$ ABA Journal EBSCO$205.00SOCHU 1American Anthropologist EBSCO$29.95ARTRG161American Artist EBSCO$50.00ARTRG11American Craft EBSCO$250.00BUSSS 1American Economic Review EBSCO$24.00HISRG 1American Heritage FacDON 1 American Heritage of Invention & T EBSCO$250.00HISHU11American Historical Review EBSCO$289.00POLSS 1American Journal of Political Sci. EBSCO$258.95PSYSS 1American Journal of Psychiatry EBSCO$335.00SOCSS91American Journal of Sociology EBSCO$85.00BIOGS 1American Midland Naturalist EBSCO$520.00POLSS 1American Political Science Review FacDON PSYSS American Psychologist EBSCO$30.00 RG 1American Scholar EBSCO$185.00SOCSS121American Sociological Review EBSCO$18.00SPARG 1Americas EBSCO$607.00GEOSS61Annals of Assn of Amer Geographers FREE Aramco World Magazine EBSCO$39.95ARTRG 1Art in America EBSCO$66.00ARTHU 1Artforum EBSCO$39.95ARTRG 1Artnews EBSCO$24.95 RG21Atlantic Monthly EBSCO$35.00BIORG 1Audubon EBSCO$294.00BIORG81Bioscience EBSCO$85.00 RG 1Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists EBSCO$59.97BUSRG11Business Week EBSCO$32.00ARTAR 1Ceramics Monthly FREE BUS CFO FacDON CHEBU22 Chemical & Engineering News

Titles out of top 20, 11 yr-5yr Fortune (#19 to #25) Economist (#4 to #31) Ceramics Monthly (#20 to #38) New Republic (#15 to #54) Chronicle of Higher Education (#12 to #73)

Titles into top 20, 11 yr-5yr BioScience (#21 to #11) Selecciones del Reader’s Digest (#27 to #12) American Artist (#22 to #14) Annals of Assn of Am Geographers (#39 to #17) Consumer Reports (#23 to #18)

Books AFTER 1 YEAR # Titles Purchase d % of Total Purchase s # of Titles Circulate d % of Titles Purchased in Subject # of Titles Circulate d > Once % of Titles Purchased in Subject Total # Circulatio ns % of Total Circ. variance Philosophy61.6%6100.0%233.3%84.2%2.6% Psychology133.6%1184.6%215.4%136.8%3.3% Ethics & Religion174.7%741.2%15.9%94.7%0.1% History: General and Old World246.6%28.3%14.2%42.1%-4.5% History: Americas4311.8%1023.3%37.0%147.4%-4.4% Geography41.1%250.0%00.0%21.1%0.0% Anthropology, Folklore, Customs30.8%133.3%1 52.6%1.8% Phsyical Education & Recreation82.2%225.0%00.0%21.1%-1.1% Economics369.9%925.0%719.4%3618.9%9.1% Sociology4111.2%2561.0%922.0%4021.1%9.8% Political Science82.2%450.0%225.0%73.7%1.5% Law61.6%116.7%00.0%10.5%-1.1% Education369.9%513.9%25.6%84.2%-5.7% Music & Fine Arts236.3%626.1%00.0%63.2%-3.1% Language and Literature339.0%515.2%26.1%126.3%-2.7% American Literature195.2%631.6%210.5%115.8%0.6% Sciences & Mathematics4512.3%1022.2%24.4%126.3%-6.0% TOTAL: % %369.9%190 circ ratio:0.521

Summative Data

By Recommender AFTER 1 YEAR # Titles Purchas ed % of Total Purchase s Total Price % of Total Price # of Titles Circulate d % of Titles Purchased in Subject # of Titles Circulate d > Once % of Titles Purchased in Subject # Circulatio ns Library Masters in Education program Louzecky Buser Emmerichs Byrand McCarty Bockstiegel Atwood-Harvey Flannery Gates Uebelherr Milicia Krebs Reevesman Margrett Gross Schank Peneski Grittinger Scherff Crossley

Future use/modification Continue to watch as data grows –Summative –Variance What will happen as number of book expenditures grows? Add a regular ILL assessment component

Re-balancing the print acquisitions budget: books vs. periodicals Wednesday, Nov. 30, 11:00-11:50am COMING ATTRACTIONS!