Data for Academic Liaisons

[Leslie Christianson]

Good morning,

We would like to provide more data to our Academic Liaisons for their collection development work. I was curious what type of data or reports you provide to the selectors, and do you do it on a quarterly or annual basis? We are trying to develop reports or scorecards that would support their work. Thank you. 

[Harker, Karen]

We’ve created a couple of reports in Power BI that are continuously updated:

• ILL Requests (shows title and other info about books and journals requested, organized by department, as well as by general subject)
• Turnaways (shows # of turnaways by resource name, as provided in the TR reports by platform)

 

We also provide usage data of ejournals, and we’re currently building a report showing usage of databases.  Eventually, we include a report of usage of ebooks. 

 

Finally, we’re currently working on a report that will allow staff to measure usage of specific resources that are promoted before, during, and after the promotion campaign.  This would include book displays, information sessions, and other kinds of campaigns.  The harder part is creating an easy way for the staff to upload the specific items to examine, but we’re working on a solution.

 

Oh, one more thing – we have subscribed to Choreo and we have promoted its use among liaisons, a few of whom have started using it to find books that other libraries have and which could be useful for ours, as well. 

 

Only a few of our liaison librarians have utilized these sources, so we’re working on “spreadin’ the news” and making them more accessible.

 

Karen R. Harker

Collection Assessment Librarian

University of North Texas Libraries

Denton, Texas 75287

Karen....@unt.edu

 

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Good morning,

 

We would like to provide more data to our Academic Liaisons for their collection development work. I was curious what type of data or reports you provide to the selectors, and do you do it on a quarterly or annual basis? We are trying to develop reports or scorecards that would support their work. Thank you. 

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