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Purpose of Using the COPAC CCM Tools
- 1. To help us get to know the value of our
collections better
- 2. To enable us to make more effective
Newcastle University Library Special Collections : a case study in - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Newcastle University Library Special Collections : a case study in getting to know your collections Its recommended Dr Melanie Wood Special Collections and Archives Librarian Melanie.Wood@ncl.ac.uk University Library Purpose of Using
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Background
- Cataloguing backlog
- Pressure on environmentally-controlled storage space
- Under-utilised collections
- Ambition to raise our profile
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What we did
- Selected collections:
- candidates for weeding
- candidates for marketing
- Obtained list of local record numbers from LMS (Aleph)
- Batch search to obtain collection profiles
- Combined results with data on collection usage
- Wrote reports with recommendations for senior managers
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What we discovered
- Some of our collections are more ‘special’
than we thought
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What we discovered
- The CCM Tool can be integrated into
standard collection management workflows
- Influences:
acquisitions cataloguing preservation conservation digitisation exhibitions dialogue
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Comments on Using the CCM Tools
- Results are obtained quickly
- It is helpful to see how copies are distributed geographically
- Deduplication facility is useful, but less so for pre-1801
publications
- Shelf checks are still necessary: copy-specific information,
physical condition
- Collection Development Policy v. scarcity of copies