Analytics at OCLC Goal: support the library community in decision-

making activity, using transactional and cooperative data

New framework enables a comprehensive suite of analytics and decision-making tools using library data.

The priorities for the offering will be two-fold: To provide a set of tools that enable authorized library

staff members to access and manipulate library data, both local and cooperative, in support of local decision-making; and

To aggregate and expose pre-processed library data, both local and cooperative, for consumption via the WorldShare Platform.

First Step: Collection Evaluation

Task-oriented interfaces help libraries put data in context – easier to use Deselection/basic shared print: Spring 2013 Benchmarking: May 2013 Group support: November 2013

Web service to offer machine access to pre-processed comparison data: May 2013

10 libraries participating in a pilot beginning in February

The teal pie chart represents my library’s holdings in the selected subject area. Since we haven’t applied any additional criteria,

the whole chart is teal, representing 947 titles.

The vertical chart on the right shows the distribution of holdings across the other libraries in my comparison.

Limiting by publication date shows me that 91.2% of my library’s holdings were published before 2005.

Finally, I want to limit to titles in my collection that are also held by more than 2 libraries. This represents a much smaller portion

of my collection – the titles that I want to consider for deselection.

The May release will introduce additional filters, including options to incorporate usage information (e.g., exclude items that have

circ’d more than 5 times from the candidate list.)

I can export details about the titles – including location and call number – to create a picklist for pulling items from the shelf.

Or Identify Infrequently-Held Titles for Contribution to Shared Print Programs