ARL Statistics Webcast

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ARL Statistics Webcast

• December 4, 2007
• 130 300 p.m. EST

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Welcome

• Martha Kyrillidou
• Director, Statistics and Service Quality Programs
• Julia Blixrud
• ARL Assistant Executive Director,
• External Relations
• Mark Young
• ARL Statistics Liaison

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ARL Statistics and Measurement 2007

• MaShana Davis
• Technical Communications Liaison
• Kristina Justh
• Customer Relations Coordinator
• Yolanda Glass
• Administrative Assistant

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ARL Statistics and Measurement 2007

• Gary Roebuck
• Technical Operations Manager
• ClassFive Development Team
• James Marquis, President
• Jim Moore, Senior Developer
• Eric Johnson, Developer
• Joshua Sunshine, Developer

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ARL Board Statistics and Assessment Committee

• The Statistics and Assessment Committee is
  established as an ARL Board Committee
• To advise the Statistics and Measurement Program,
  and
• To identify quantitative and qualitative metrics
  and assessment tools needed in support of ARL's
  programmatic objectives.
• Adopted by the ARL Board July 25, 2005

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ARL Statistics and Assessment

• David Carlson (Southern Illinois
  Carbondale) 2006-2007
• Joanne Eustis (Case Western Reserve)  2006-2007
• Chris Filstrup (Stony Brook, SUNY)   2007-2009
• Brinley Franklin (Connecticut)  2006-2008
• Ruth Jackson (California, Riverside)  2007-2009
• Judith Nadler (Chicago) 2006-2007
• Louis A. Pitschmann (Alabama) 2007-2009
• Bill Potter (Georgia)  2006-2008
• Paul Wiens (Queen's) 2006-2008
• Sandra Yee (Wayne State)  2006-2007
• Colleen Cook (Texas AM) 2006-2008
• Martha Kyrillidou, ARL Staff

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ARL Statistics and Measurement

• To describe and measure the performance of
  research libraries and their contribution to
  teaching, research, scholarship and community
  service

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ARL Statistics and Measurement

• To describe and measure the performance of
  research libraries and their contribution to
  teaching, research, scholarship and community
  service

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Assessment of ARL

• Tools StatsQUAL
• ARL Statistics and other annual, or adhoc,
  surveys
• LibQUAL
• ClimateQUAL
• MINES for Libraries and DigiQUAL
• Building a Community of Practice
• Library Assessment Conferences
• Service Quality Evaluation Academy
• Library Assessment blog
• Individual Library Consultation
• ESP Assessment - Effective, Sustainable,
  Practical
• Using LibQUAL Effectively

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Julia Blixrud

• ARL Assistant Executive Director, External Affairs

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Counting Serials

• Number of unique serial titles currently
  purchased
• Number of unique serial titles currently received
  (and maintained?), but not purchased
• ARL New Serials Statistic Gathering the
  Statistic at the Texas AM University Libraries
  http//www.arl.org/bmdoc/texasam_serials.ppt

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ARL NEW SERIALS STATISTIC Gathering the Statistic
at the Texas AM University Libraries
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GATHERING THE SERIAL STATISTIC
eSerials
eDocuments
Step 1 From Link Resolver (SFX) Create
eSerials List
Step 2 From Library Mgmt System (Voyager)
Create eDocuments List
eDocuments
Guidelines
Step 3 Compare to eSerials List Remove
duplicate titles from eDocuments List

• Only ISSNs are used to compare de-dupe serial
  titles (i.e. titles are not used to compare or
  de-dupe)
• Only full text serials are counted, not
  abstracted titles (e.g. Lexis-Nexus only titles
  that L/N marked as full text were counted)
• Electronic versions take priority over print
  other format
• Purchased versions take priority over
  non-purchased versions

Step 4 Merge unique eDocuments Titles with
eSerials List
Branch 1 Print Serials
FOR EACH BRANCH Step 5 From Library Mgmt
System Create Print Other Format Serials
Lists
Branch 2 Print Serials
Step 6 Compare Print Serials List to
eSerials List Remove duplicate titles From
Branch Lists
TOTAL SERIAL COUNT
Step 7 Compare Print Serials Lists to other
Branch Lists Remove duplicate titles From
Successive Branch Lists
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• RESULTS
• ARL Serial Statistics TAMU
• EVANS MSL TOTAL
• 4a Number of current serials purchased 33,268 620
  33,888
• 4a i Electronic 29,501 11 29,512
• 4a ii Print other formats 3,767 609 4,376
• 4b Number of current serials received
  16,533 145 16,678
• but not purchased
• 4b i Electronic 11,636 109 11,745
• 4b ii Print other formats 4,897 36
  4,933
• TOTAL SERIALS 50,566
• Notes
• Statistic is generated by comparing ISSN
  eISSNs

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COMPARISON OF SERIALS WITH ISSN AND WITHOUT
Document eSerials
Print Serials
Electronic Serials
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COMPARISON OF OLD ARL SERIAL STATISTIC TO NEW
SERIAL STATSTIC 2005-2006 2006-2007
Electronic 25,088 41,257 Print other
formats 20,718 9,309 Total
45,806 50,566
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• RECOMMENDATIONS
• Stay the course
• Involve vendors
• Begin discussion on how to fill in ISSN gaps for
  each institution
• Possibly a collaborative project
• Recommended that each institution began tracking
  ISSN/non-ISSN statistics. As the of ISSN
  Serials grow the ARL Serials Statistic becomes
  more accurate.

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GATHERING THE ARL SERIAL STATISTIC TAMU
Create Serials Print Lists Note these lists
contain all current subscriptions for all formats
other than Electronic. Not just Print formats
Create Serials Electronics Lists

• ISSNs used to compare and de-dupe serial titles
• Electronic versions take priority over print
  other format
• Purchased versions take priority over
  non-purchased versions

• Collect data from link resolver
• (TAMU uses Ex Libris SFX) to create 2 lists
• List of unique Electronic Titles
• List of unique ISSNs from Electronic Titles
• (ISSN and eISSN more often these days
• eSerials use ISSNs)
• Title list will contain purchase/not purchased
• information

• Search Branch Library Management System
• (For TAMU these include
• Main Branch Med Sci Libr and
• Galveston Libr)
• to create 2 lists for each branch
• List of unique Print Titles
• List of unique ISSNs from Print Titles
• Title list will contain purchase/not purchased
• information

• Collect Document eSerials data from
• Main Branch Library Management System
• (TAMU uses Ex Libris Voyager)
• to create 2 lists
• List of unique Document eSerials Titles
• List of unique ISSNs from Documents
• eSerials ISSNs

Product FOR EACH BRANCH a Print Titles list and
an ISSN list accounting for all Print Serials
De-Dupe Documents eSerials Against Serials
Electronic List and then Merge Lists
If Documents eSerial does not have an ISSN add
title to Electronic Titles list
Compare Documents eSerial ISSN list to
Electronic ISSN list
De-Dupe Serials Print Lists Against Serials
Electronic List
If Documents eSerial ISSN matches Electronic ISSN
move on to next Documents eSerials ISSN to
compare
Compare Branch Print ISSN list to Electronic
ISSN list
If Documents eSerial ISSN does not match
Electronic ISSN add to Electronic Titles list
If ISSN matches delete from Branch Print Titles
list Repeat through all branches
Product Electronic Title list and Electronic
ISSN list accounting for all Document and
non-Document eSerials
De-Dupe Serials Print Lists Against One Another
Electronic vs. Print Product FOR EACH BRANCH
a REVISED Print Titles list REVISED Print ISSN
list that do not contain titles listed on
Electronic Titles list
Electronic versions take priority over other
formats therefore Electronic Title and ISSN
lists from this point forward will remain static
Compare Branch No. 1 Revised Print ISSN list to
Branch No. 2 Revised ISSN list
If ISSN matches delete from Branch No. 2 Revised
Print Titles list Repeat through all branches
until all branches have been compared to one
another

• Final Products
• Electronic Titles List
• Print Titles list for each branch
• Each list with unique titles no duplication

Print vs. Print Product FOR EACH BRANCH
a Print Titles list with unique titles i.e. no
duplication of print titles between branches
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ISSN (www.issn.org)

• International standard since 1975
• Assigned by national centers, not by individual
  publishers
• 83 national centers
• International Centre
• ISSN Register
• 1,284,413 records in 2006 (half English)
• Adding 60-80,000 per year

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ARL Statistics FAQ Dec 3, 2007

• It includes clarification on questions regarding
  many of the changing aspects of the collections
  variables like
• How to count ebooks
• Reporting currently purchased titles
• Can open access titles be counted
• How to count Google and Open Access Alliance
  digitization projects

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Library Assessment Blog

• Use the library assessment blog to tell us how
  you are deduping serials
• To find what others are asking
• To learn the latest ARL thinking on the issues
• http//libraryassessment.info/?cat28

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Using the Web Form

• Mark YoungARL Statistics Liaison

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Closure

• Martha Kyrillidou
• Director, ARL Statistics and
• Service Quality Programs

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Data Audit Procedures

• Mathematical and logical errors
• Follow up on increases/decreases from last year
  that are unusually large
• Summary statistics
• Key indicators
• ARL Index variables
• Analysis of Selected Variables table, ARL
  Statistics 2005-06

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Deliverables

• Machine-readable data
• http//www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/mrstat.html
• Publications (PDF)
• ARL Statistics
• ARL Academic Law Library Statistics
• ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics
• ARL Preservation Statistics
• Electronic edition of the ARL Statistics at the
  Geostat Center at the U. of Virginia
• http//fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/index.html

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January 30, 2008

• All surveys are due no later than
• January 30, 2008

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Meeting in Philadelphia

• ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons Meeting
  
• FRIDAY, January 11, 2008
• 330500 p.m.
• University of Pennsylvania
• Logan Hall, Terrace Room (249 South 36th Street)
• REGISTER
• http//www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/stats_ala0108
  .shtml
• NOTE There are ARL assessment meetings
  throughout the day starting at 900am

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Thank You for Joining Us!

• Questions we received during this conference will
  be archived with answers and made available on
  the ARL Statistics website
• http//www.arl.org/stats/annualsurveys/arlstats/07
  statmail.shtml

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