---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:38:31 -0400
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dividing the market  Re: Haworth press journals (Buddy
         Pennington)

For a summary, see my presentation from the 2000 National Online Meeting, at:
http://www.princeton.edu/~biolib/dg/whatprint.html
and , from this year's SLA meeting:
http://www.princeton.edu/~biolib/dg/whatpubl.html
(They will also appear together in modified form in the next Online
Information Review.)

For a discussion of a MUCH better effort, see the material from Univ. of Wisc.
Of course that's a multi-year project across a whole library system. see:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/glsdo/cost.html

Another discussion from  earlier on this list: see:

>            Re: Journal use studies--request for info -Reply
>       Date:
>            Mon, 15 May 2000 17:25:27 -0400
>      From:
>            Alfred Kraemer <akraemer@MCW.EDU>

Wisconsin concluded that their use/reshelving ration was less than or equal to 2.
 My data was that it was very close to 2.
Difficult as it is to do such a study, without it you do not have data. But I
was very glad to stop after one year. With e-journals, this will be much
easier once methods are worked out for dealing with the immense amounts of
data obtainable.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:24:06 -0500
> From: "Pennington, Buddy" <buddy.pennington@ROCKHURST.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Dividing the market  Re: Haworth press journals (Lynn Gardner
>
> I would also be interested in usage statistics besides reshelving data.
> However, you can get a more accurate count of usage if you provide a place
> next to the photocopiers for users to put the issues and volumes they use.
> If there is a clearly marked area next to the copiers, they are less likely
> to take the trouble to reshelve the item themselves.  Of course, there are
> still going to be inaccuracies!
>
> Buddy Pennington
> Acquisitions/Serials Librarian
> Rockhurst University Greenlease Library
> buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu
> #816-501-4143
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:31:33 -0700
> From: "Gardner, Lynn" <gardnerl@PACIFICU.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Dividing the market  Re: Haworth press journals (Steve Black)
>
> In your "Measures used for definition of a core collection", how did you
> conduct a one year study of use of periodicals?  I've not yet found a good
> way to measure use of current and bound titles on open shelves.  We've used
> reshelving data, but it doesn't feel at all reliable/accurate/complete.
> Thanks
> _______________________
> Lynn Gardner
> Periodicals Supervisor
> Harvey W. Scott Library
> Pacific University
> Forest Grove, OR