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CURL/RSLP Collection Mapping Project. Chris Bailey Acting Director Library Services University of Glasgow. About CURL. http://www.curl.ac.uk/
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CURL/RSLP Collection Mapping Project Chris Bailey Acting Director Library Services University of Glasgow
About CURL • http://www.curl.ac.uk/ • “…to optimise the combined information resources and expertise of the CURL libraries, in partnership with relevant organisations, for the benefit of research scholarship…” • “…the development of a national collection mapping strategy…”
Concerns… • Different communities, different approaches • Inconsistent collection description • Inconsistencies in retrieval
OCLC/Lacey • Automated collection analysis software • Uses standard classification schemes • Maps to Conspectus headings • Analysis to title level • Institutional analysis • Consortial analysis
RSLP • CURL response to Circular 2000/3 • Proposal to co-fund a pilot project on collection mapping using iCas
The Project • Purpose • Partners • Process • Methodology • Preliminary Results
Purpose • Small pilot project • Evaluate the usefulness of the methodology used • Provide a cross institutional analysis to compare overlap and uniqueness
Partners • University of Edinburgh • University of Liverpool • Imperial College • University of Hull • SOAS • Natural History Museum
Process • Questionnaire to be submitted by each partner • Test file supplied by each partner • OPAC upload to OCLC/Lacey • Data analysis by OCLC …….approx 9 months in total………
Methodology • De-duplication • Records matched to WorldCat in order to locate an LC classification • Conspectus analysis • Results provided on CD
Results • Sent 2,767,669 bibliographic records • De-duplication – 2,707,696 records • 2,268,225 records analysed – 84%
Results…. • Edinburgh – 78% analysis • Liverpool – 85% analysis • Imperial – 74% analysis • Hull – 99% analysis • SOAS – 92% analysis • NHM – 47% analysis
Issues… • Standard use of standard classification seems OK… • Local adaptation of standard classification causes inconsistencies • Issues relating to the standards….
