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2.  Review of ReCAP operations ◦ Physical plant and new modules  Data ◦ Basic analysis: accession, requests and circulation ◦ Language ◦ High-use titles ◦ EDD ◦ System-wide trends  Feedback! ReCAP Columbia University

3.  8.9 million books  CUL 3.9, NYPL 3.1, PUL 1.9  5 Modules complete  2 planned for construction: Modules 8 & 9 expected to break ground FY14, completed FY15  CUL manages transfers with quotasquotas  Tours conducted once or twice every year ReCAP Columbia University

4.  What is Area Studies? ◦ Oops, I didn’t exactly know (it’s not “Lehman”)  Language/subject based selection  Focus on two CLIO locations: ◦ “Area Studies Collection” = off,glx and off,leh  Pamela helped focus topic: language, high- use titles and request rate  New challenge: language codes ReCAP Columbia University

5.  Four basic categories of data ◦ Accessions ◦ Requests ◦ Delivery ◦ Circulation  Detailed information can be found at the ReCAP Data Center website ReCAP Data Center website  Website now includes introductory presentations for all basic categories AND analysis ReCAP Columbia University

6.  Chart of accessions by fiscal year  Transfer began as soon as ReCAP opened  Load-in period during first few years  Transfers from Lehman Library are project- focused ReCAP Columbia University

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10.  TOTAL : 1,482,420 / 181,195 (Request Rate 1.90%)  off,glx : 1,267,596 / 155,674 (1.81%)  off,leh : 214,824 / 25,521 (2.74%) ReCAP Columbia University “Libraries” consist of multiple CLIO locations (collections)

11. ReCAP Columbia University  Request typically begins immediately after transfer  Volume has leveled off system-wide in past three years  May be explained by charge/renewal trend  Monthly request volume in phase with academic calendar  50% more requests in Fall and Spring than Summer system-wide  Data for small and low-use collections is noisy

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17.  A high-use title is any title that has been requested 5 or more times since accession  Includes both physical delivery and EDD  Desire by staff to study high-use titles  Initial purpose of ReCAP was to shelve low- use collections  Due to space need, selector decision and patron trends, some titles may be considered higher- or high-use  Excludes: eng, fre, ger and ita ReCAP Columbia Univeristy

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19.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the dominant language of requested collections is English  Percentage of total requests is followed by retrieval rate in parentheses ◦ English : 78.1% (3.64%) ◦ Spanish : 7.6% (1.71%) ◦ French : 3.8% (2.13%) ◦ Everything Else : 2.5% (0.57%) ◦ Russian : 2.3% (0.51%) ◦ German : 1.8% (0.79%) ◦ Arabic : 1.3% (1.29%) ◦ Italian : 1.0% (2.035) ◦ Portugese : 0.9% (0.90%) ◦ Persian : 0.8% (8.33%) ReCAP Columbia University

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23.  For several years there has been a steady decline for EDD requests  Likely due to e-access to current titles and purchase of backfiles  Individual patrons can have large effect on data (e.g. early 2009)  Pagination now required (August 2009)  Patrons must have active borrowing privileges to request EDD (August 2011) ReCAP Columbia University

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26.  More information about data sets can be found on the ReCAP Data Center websiteReCAP Data Center website  Primary data categories include: accession, retrieval, delivery and circulation  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 systemsReCAP website ReCAP Columbia Univeristy