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29 th June 2018 The Decision Tree & Collection Management Karen Thomas Suzy Cheeke Jan Davey Share the Experience @ Edinburgh 1 29 th June 2018 Aims: What is a decision tree? How can it be used in collection management?


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The Decision Tree & Collection Management

Karen Thomas Suzy Cheeke Jan Davey

29th June 2018 1 Share the Experience @ Edinburgh

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Aims:

  • What is a decision tree?
  • How can it be used in collection management?
  • Creating a tree for your library

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Decision Tree “A decision tree is a graph that uses a branching method to illustrate every possible outcome of a decision” WhatIs.com

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Why make a decision tree?

  • Space at a premium in libraries so collections

must “earn their keep”

  • Need to make informed retention decisions
  • Essential to keep our stakeholders on board
  • Useful tool to reassure and explain

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What we Did

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Key Decision Strands

  • Keep on open shelves
  • Treat as a special collection
  • Safe to relegate

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A first attempt!

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Results: Keep

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  • The second attempt was a

little more sophisticated

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Master Tree

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Now over to you…

  • In your allocated category groups decide what criteria you would

use to decide what to keep on open shelves or what to treat as a special collection, or what to relegate

  • Rank your criteria in priority order
  • Now look at Bristol’s tree, try to follow the decision path
  • What did we miss? What did we include that you didn’t?
  • Have a look at what other groups thought..(we will collate the

information and share it with you after the event)

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Next steps

  • At Bristol, making the decision tree acted as a springboard for

further action

  • We tested the decisions with library colleagues
  • We tested scenarios and translated them in withdrawal/retention

statistics

  • Considered what these decisions mean for the size of the library

collections and where they should be housed

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