Smita Joshipura has been serving as an Electronic Resources Management Coordinator at Arizona State University since 2007, where she is responsible for management of e-Resources from Acquisitions to Access. Prior to this, she was an Acquisitions Librarian at the same institution from 2000 onward. She has her Master's in Library and Information Science degree from India and the University of Arizona, USA; she has rich experience for more than 20 years in Research, Academic, and Public Libraries in India and USA. She is actively involved with International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), and Asian Pacific American Libraries Association (APALA) by serving on their standing committees. She has a strong interest in professional contributions in the areas of serials management, serials analytics, and promoting diversity in libraries. 

As a person, she enjoys cooking, reading, music, traveling, and spending time with friends and family members. 

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Usage Statistics for Collection Assessment and Decision Making
Description

Arizona State University (ASU), being the largest public university in the United States, has a very extensive collection of e-resources. The library consistently receives a large number of requests to add new e-resources to its collection. At the same time, the library is experiencing a downward pressure on its collection

Arizona State University (ASU), being the largest public university in the United States, has a very extensive collection of e-resources. The library consistently receives a large number of requests to add new e-resources to its collection. At the same time, the library is experiencing a downward pressure on its collection budget due to the current recession in general and in the State of Arizona in particular. This has resulted in an increase in the evaluation and monitoring of the use of e-resources. Although the process of collecting and disseminating usage statistics is a very time consuming, tedious, and challenging, overall usage statistics are very critical and extremely helpful in taking important collection management decisions in a timely manner.

This paper illustrates a home-grown online A-Z usage statistics web site at the ASU Libraries and how usage reports are gathered/generated, stored, and made accessible to decision makers. The usage reports are for most of the licensed resources and are updated regularly. The web site displays an A-Z list of e-resources composed of a mix of provider names, packages, and titles and several consolidated reports. The available reports are from year 2004 to present time. For the librarians, the web site along with other criteria serves as a valuable tool for analyzing the library collection. This paper will also highlight the use of this assessment tool, discuss the challenges encountered in developing the usage web site and the future plans for streamlining the process of data collection and availability.

ContributorsJoshipura, Smita (Author) / Carvalho, James (Author)
Created2010-06-03