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• Collections & Technical Services
• Apr 07
• Issue: 211

Understand Your Collection in New Ways and Save $500 On a New Subscription to WorldCat Collection Analysis

WorldCat Collection Analysis is an online analytical tool that helps you understand your collection’s strengths, weaknesses, and gaps. You can compare your collection to similar institutions, discover lending and borrowing patterns, and easily produce reports. Also, when you subscribe to Collection Analysis, OCLC will provide a one-time retrospective or reclamation backload at no addition charge to ensure your analyses will be accurate.

We were trying to get our hands around understanding what we have, what to keep and what to get rid of. We had a way to look at the holdings, but it was time-consuming and difficult. We needed a better way to do assessments in preparation for our college accreditation self-study report.
-Dawn Thistle, Director of Library Services (Assumption College) http://www.oclc.org/services/brochures/12111U_WCA_AssumptionCollege.pdf

If you subscribe before June 27th, OCLC will waive the $500 set up fee. For a tour of WorldCat Collection Analysis or to read about success stories please visit: http://www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis/ or contact Jen Hawkes, OCLC Services Librarian at Nylink, via phone (518-443-5444/800-342-3353) or email (hawkesj@nylink.org) for more information.

Collections & Technical Services Contact Information

Please contact Lauren Pinsley (pinsleyl@nylink.org), Lynne Graziadei (graziadeil@nylink.org) or Mary Edgerton (edgertonm@nylink.org) at Nylink with any questions. They are available via email or phone (518-443-5444/800-342-3353).