It is worth doing but how you do it depends on your ILS.  Unless you can
wring reports out of it, using the ILS is wasted effort.  In my former
position, I couldn't write reports with our ILS and had to resort to
hash marks on a paper list.  However you do it, these usage indicators
are very helpful in decision-making.

Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Anil Deshpande
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:38 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Print Serials in-house statistics

We are considering gathering usage statistics for print serials by using
a bar
code Scanner and the in-house circulation module of our software. Has
any
one had experience with this? Did the data you gathered help you make
decision about purchases? What benefits did you realize from a project
like
this? Any suggestions are welcomed.