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The Harmony of Peers - Mining Peer Selection Patterns to Improve Consortial Engineering Collections
Orion Pozo – NCSU [email protected]
Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session ASEE Annual Meeting, Portland OR
Monday, June 13, 2005
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Summary
Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) is a consortium of libraries at four North Carolina universities
TRLN shares a common book vendor, YBP Library Services
YBP provides Consortial & Peer ReportsGoal:
– Use Consortium and Peer Data to Increase quality and quantity of titles available to the consortium
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The Triangle Research Libraries Network:
North Carolina State UniversityUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillDuke UniversityNorth Carolina Central University
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Peer Institutions*
Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ RMIT Monash University Univ of Cincinnati Iowa State Univ MIT Penn State Univ Purdue Univ Massey Univ Chinese Univ of Hong Kong Cornell Univ Stanford Univ
Ohio State Univ UC San Diego Hong Kong Univ of Sci & Tech Carnegie Mellon Univ Univ of Technology, Sydney Clemson Univ Cal State Poly Univ, Pomona Rensselaer Polytech Inst Univ of Wisconsin, Madison Univ of Calgary Duke Univ
* Peers were chosen based on the number of book selections in YBP’s Gobi2 database in the subjects of technology and computer science
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Goals -
-Increase quality of titles available to the consortium -Reduce duplication of titles in the consortium
Methodology -– For 2004-2005 use Consortial Reports to reduce
duplication
– At the same time use Peer Reports to identify quality titles not in consortium
– Compare the selection of duplicates and unique titles in the Consortium from 2003-2004 and 2004-2005
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Project Outline:
At one TRLN institution
Use Consortial Reports to reduce duplication & identify titles not held
Use Peer Reports to identify quality books not heldCompare Consortial reports with Peer reports to
purchase quality items not in the consortiumCompare duplication and number of titles for 2003-2004
(before Peer Reports) and 2004-2005 (after Peer Reports)
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Details
Limited to:– Books ordered from one vendor– Subjects:
• Computer Science (QA75-77)
• Engineering & Technology (T-TX)
– Only two years of data available from vendor– One library (other consortial libraries
purchased as always)
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YBP Consortial Report Form
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Sample YBP Record GobiTween shows slips were sent to 4 Consortium Libraries PeerGroup shows 10 Peer Libraries Selected this title
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Peer Activity Data for Single Record Lists 10 Libraries that Selected this Book
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Number of Titles Purchased From 2003-2004 to 2004-2005 TRLN Consortium purchasing of books
from this vendor in these subject areas decreased 23% Number of books purchased decreased from 5,357 to 4,122
Number of books purchased by libraries in TRLN ConsortiumYEAR 2003-2004 2004-2005
Subject Group QA75-77 T Combined QA75-77 T Combined
TRLN LIBRARYNORTH CAROLINA STATE/RALEIGH 802 2372 3174 653 1790 2443UNIV OF NC/CHAPEL HILL 400 778 1178 327 654 981DUKE UNIVERSITY 46 833 879 28 567 595UNIV OF NC/CHAPEL HILL/UL 14 19 33 13 15 28DUKE UNIV SCHOOL OF LAW 2 14 16 0 17 17UNIV OF NC/CHAPEL HILL HEALTH 1 40 41 0 38 38UNIV OF NC/CHAPEL HILL-LAW 1 1 2 0 3 3FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS/LIB 0 17 17 0 10 10UNIV OF NC/CHAPEL HILL/NCC 0 11 11 0 5 5UNC-CHAPEL HILL/STONE 0 3 3 0 2 2NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIV 0 3 3 0 0 0
Total Consortium Purchases 1266 4091 5357 1021 3101 4122Difference between 2004 & 2005 -245 -990 -1235 -23%
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Number of Libraries Selecting Titles
•While the number of books went down 23%, the number of titles was down only 18%
•Number of titles held by a single library in the Consortium went up 7.8%
•Almost 200 more titles were purchased using this methodology than would have been bought before it was available
Number of TRLN Libraries Selecting Titles
YEAR 2003-2004 2004-2005Percent Change
Subject Group QA75-77 T CombinedPercent of Total QA75-77 T Combined
Percent of Total
2003-04 to 2004-05
No. of Libraries
1 905 1831 2736 51.1% 860 1564 2424 58.8% 7.8%2 137 763 900 33.6% 52 587 639 31.0% -2.6%3 26 220 246 13.8% 19 105 124 9.0% -4.7%4 1 19 20 1.5% 0 12 12 1.2% -0.3%5 1 0 1 0.1% 0 0 0 0.0% -0.1%
Total No. of Titles 1070 2833 3903 931 2268 3199 -18.0%Total No. of Items (# Titles X # of Libraries) 1266 4093 5359 1021 3101 4122 -23.1%
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Conclusions
Consortial Reports can be used effectively to reduce duplication in book selection within a consortium
Peer Selection Data can be effectively used to find high quality materials that are not owned by consortium members
Consortial and Peer data can be used harmoniously to build richer collections
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Recommendations for future studies
Improvements in YBP’s Gobi2 database to allow sorting by and exporting the number of Peers selecting items would help data mining
Cooperative use of this methodology by multiple members of a consortium should enhance desirable outcomes
Replicating this study with multiple selectors in larger consortia