Analyze This: Usage and Your Collection -Building an Investigative Culture and a Meaningful Tool

摘要

Rutgers University is a large institution with 28 schools and colleges, including New Jersey's only pharmacy school. It offers more than 100 undergraduate majors, as well as more than 180 graduate programs. Supporting these programs across three campuses are 26 libraries, with a collection that encompasses 84,000 electronic subscriptions and more than 300 databases. Rutgers has two major research libraries - one in science and one in humanities - six specialized libraries, and two undergraduate libraries. The John Cotton Dana Library, in Newark, is home to the Institute for Jazz Studies, which is the largest jazz archive in the world. And the Paul Robeson Library, in Camden, has a broad liberal arts collection. Our collection development serves a very large, diverse community. To date, our usage analysis has been a progressive process, and we have found practical ways to employ our usage and performance data. As we progress, we are con- tinuously revisiting the following questions and working toward new developments to answer them: What data are we collecting, and why? How do we interpret the value of the data we collect? How can we enhance our data?