Collection Analysis and Development Tool

Centralized collection analysis solution that provides a comprehensive view of library holdings, circulation statistics from multiple sources, and community insights. Without a shared analysis platform, libraries must rely on individual ILS reporting tools, spreadsheets, and other manual processes to evaluate their collections and community outreach efforts
- Collection analysis tool would provide libraries with greater insight into their individual and collective holdings while supporting more informed, data-driven collection management decisions.
- Solution should address these functions:
• Support the aggregation and analysis of collection data from multiple libraries and integrated library systems (ILS).
• Provide comprehensive analysis of library collections, including collection size, age, usage, subject coverage, and other relevant collection characteristics.
• Identify collection overlap, duplication, unique holdings, strengths, weaknesses, and gaps across participating libraries.
• Support comparison and benchmarking of collections between individual libraries, peer groups, and participating institutions.
• Provide tools to support weeding, deselection, retention, replacement, and acquisition decisions using configurable criteria and available collection and usage data.
• Support collaborative collection development, including identification of opportunities to reduce unnecessary duplication and strengthen shared collections.
• Allow libraries to analyze collections by criteria such as subject, call number/classification range, publication date, format, location, circulation activity, and other available bibliographic or holdings data.
• Provide configurable dashboards, reports, and visualizations that allow staff to identify trends and evaluate collection performance.
• Allow users to create, save, export, and share reports and analysis results.
• Support analysis at multiple organizational levels, including individual branches, libraries, library groups, and the statewide collection, as applicable.
• Provide appropriate user roles and permissions so participating libraries can access their own information while authorized administrators can conduct broader comparative and statewide analyses.
• Provide a secure, web-based interface that does not require locally installed software for routine use.
• Support periodic updates or synchronization of collection data to ensure analyses reflect current library holdings and activity.
• Provide capabilities that assist participating libraries and NDUS/ODIN in making evidence-based decisions regarding acquisitions, retention, deselection, collection investment, and cooperative collection development.