November 16, 2007
Circulation Analysis New Feature for Individual WCA Subscribers
The new Circulation Analysis feature of WorldCat Collection Analysis (WCA) allows you to see how your collection is being used (or not used) by your patrons. This information about your collection's usage can inform decisions about weeding, movement to off-site storage, budget allocation, digitization and acquisitions.
Data available within Circulation Analysis includes:
- Circulation date
- Total checkouts
- Circulation frequency
- Total titles circulated
- Percentage of titles circulated
- Titles not circulated
- Average checkouts per title circulated
To create a circulation analysis in WCA, you must first run a report via your ILS to extract a minimal set of data elements. For instructions on what data is required to create a circulation analysis and how to submit that data, please visit the OCLC Collection Analysis Web page.
OCLC is offering a free, live webinar to help you get the most out of this service. Please register to sit in on one of the following dates:
Information directly from OCLC is being mailed to libraries with an existing individual WCA subscription.
OCLC offers a live demo environment for Circulation Analysis. If you are interested in viewing it, please contact Beth Levrault (blevraul@bcr.org) at BCR for login and password instructions.
