1. Business Library and ReCAP: Update and Statistics
Zack Lane
ReCAP Coordinator
July 2015
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2. Business at ReCAP
Business Library has both general and special collections at ReCAP
Circulating and non-circulating collections
Items in poor physical condition do not circulate
Lots of information and instructions can be found on the Business/ReCAP website
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3. Business Customer Codes
CU : Columbia Unrestricted deliver to all locations and circulate
CR : Columbia Restricted deliver to all locations but do not circulate
BS : Business special collections deliver only to Business Circulation and do not circulate
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4. Business Library CLIO Locations
How CUL demarcates collections
off,bus : Business (circ)
off,bssc : Business Special (noncirc)
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5. 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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6. Accessions/Requests by CLIO Location
TOTAL : 239,614 / 29,796
(Request Rate 1.62%)
off,bus : 239,605 / 29,796 (1.62%)
off,bssc : 9 / 0 (0.00%)
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7. Accessions View of Business Library accessions by fiscal year
Detailed information on project may be found on Business/ReCAP website
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10. 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 (mainly FY07-FY08)
Approximately 20% of the requests for Business collections are placed by staff
Most requests are delivered to Butler
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16. Delivery
Items physically delivered to Business Library circulation desk (no EDD)
Majority are Business-owned collections, followed by Butler
Requests for Offsite Business collections far outpace deliveries to Business circulation
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20. EDD (and Format)
Volume of EDDs has risen sharply but fallen off recently
More EDDs are for monographs
System-wide trend has been downward
Note: failed requests may be included in data
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23. 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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25. More Data Available
More information and data can be found on the Business/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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