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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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