Using circulation data for the assessment of book and periodical acquisitions.

Using circulation data for the assessment of book

and periodical acquisitions 

What is circulation?

• A “check-out”• Usage (partial)

– Students, and all borrowers– Interlibrary loan

• Imperfect measure– Not (comprehensive) in-library use– Don’t know how useful item was

• A measurable indicator, reflective of overall usage trends; a guide

PeriodicalsVENDOR COST DPT IND CIR IU TITLE

EBSCO $120.00       1 ABA Journal

EBSCO $205.00 SOC HU   1 American Anthropologist

EBSCO $29.95 ART RG 16 1 American Artist

EBSCO $50.00 ART RG 1 1 American Craft

EBSCO $250.00 BUS SS   1 American Economic Review

EBSCO $24.00 HIS RG   1 American Heritage

FacDON       1   American Heritage of Invention & T

EBSCO $250.00 HIS HU 1 1 American Historical Review

EBSCO $289.00 POL SS   1 American Journal of Political Sci.

EBSCO $258.95 PSY SS   1 American Journal of Psychiatry

EBSCO $335.00 SOC SS 9 1 American Journal of Sociology

EBSCO $85.00 BIO GS   1 American Midland Naturalist

EBSCO $520.00 POL SS   1 American Political Science Review

FacDON   PSY SS     American Psychologist

EBSCO $30.00   RG   1 American Scholar

EBSCO $185.00 SOC SS 12 1 American Sociological Review

EBSCO $18.00 SPA RG   1 Americas

EBSCO $607.00 GEO SS 6 1 Annals of Assn of Amer Geographers

FREE           Aramco World Magazine

EBSCO $39.95 ART RG   1 Art in America

EBSCO $66.00 ART HU   1 Artforum

EBSCO $39.95 ART RG   1 Artnews

EBSCO $24.95   RG 2 1 Atlantic Monthly

EBSCO $35.00 BIO RG   1 Audubon

EBSCO $294.00 BIO RG 8 1 Bioscience

EBSCO $85.00   RG   1 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

EBSCO $59.97 BUS RG 1 1 Business Week

EBSCO $32.00 ART AR   1 Ceramics Monthly

FREE   BUS       CFO

FacDON   CHE BU 22   Chemical & Engineering News

20 highest circulating titles in the last 11 years

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20 highest-circulating titles in the last 5 years

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Titles out of top 20, 11 yr-5yr

• Fortune (#19 to #25)

• Economist (#4 to #31)

• Ceramics Monthly (#20 to #38)

• New Republic (#15 to #54)

• Chronicle of Higher Education (#12 to #73)

Titles into top 20, 11 yr-5yr

• BioScience (#21 to #11)

• Selecciones del Reader’s Digest (#27 to #12)

• American Artist (#22 to #14)

• Annals of Assn of Am Geographers (#39 to #17)

• Consumer Reports (#23 to #18)

# titles circulating x times in last 5 years(163 titles total)

0 circulations, 36, 22%

1-9 circulations, 66, 40%

10-19, 34, 21%

20-39, 13, 8%

40+ (118), 14, 9%

# titles circulating x times in last 11 years(163 titles total)

0 circulations, 21, 13%

1-21 circulations, 77, 48%

22-43, 38, 23%

44-87, 12, 7%

88+ (469), 15, 9%

Books 

AFTER 1 YEAR          

 # Titles

Purchased

% of Total

Purchases

# of Titles

Circulated

% of Titles Purchased in Subject

# of Titles

Circulated > Once

% of Titles Purchased in Subject

Total # Circulatio

ns

% of Total Circ.

variance

Philosophy 6 1.6% 6 100.0% 2 33.3% 8 4.2% 2.6%

Psychology 13 3.6% 11 84.6% 2 15.4% 13 6.8% 3.3%

Ethics & Religion 17 4.7% 7 41.2% 1 5.9% 9 4.7% 0.1%

History: General and Old World 24 6.6% 2 8.3% 1 4.2% 4 2.1% -4.5%

History: Americas 43 11.8% 10 23.3% 3 7.0% 14 7.4% -4.4%

Geography 4 1.1% 2 50.0% 0 0.0% 2 1.1% 0.0%

Anthropology, Folklore, Customs 3 0.8% 1 33.3% 1 33.3% 5 2.6% 1.8%

Phsyical Education & Recreation 8 2.2% 2 25.0% 0 0.0% 2 1.1% -1.1%

Economics 36 9.9% 9 25.0% 7 19.4% 36 18.9% 9.1%

Sociology 41 11.2% 25 61.0% 9 22.0% 40 21.1% 9.8%

Political Science 8 2.2% 4 50.0% 2 25.0% 7 3.7% 1.5%

Law 6 1.6% 1 16.7% 0 0.0% 1 0.5% -1.1%

Education 36 9.9% 5 13.9% 2 5.6% 8 4.2% -5.7%

Music & Fine Arts 23 6.3% 6 26.1% 0 0.0% 6 3.2% -3.1%

Language and Literature 33 9.0% 5 15.2% 2 6.1% 12 6.3% -2.7%

American Literature 19 5.2% 6 31.6% 2 10.5% 11 5.8% 0.6%

Sciences & Mathematics 45 12.3% 10 22.2% 2 4.4% 12 6.3% -6.0%

TOTAL: 365 100.0% 112 30.7% 36 9.9% 190    

circ ratio: 0.521

% TITLE CIRCULATED % TITLES CIRCULATED >1 CIRCULATION RATIO

Fiscal Year# Titles

PurchasedAfter 1 yr on shelf After 2 yrs After 3 yrs

After 1 yr on shelf After 2 yrs After 3 yrs

After 1 yr on shelf After 2 yrs After 3 yrs

2001/02 596 45.1% 22.1% .987 (588)2002/03 720 37.9% 39.6% 17.2% 20.0% 0.856 0.9652003/04 413 32.7% 12.1% 0.5932004/05 491

Summative Data

# Titles Purchased (596 total) 2001/02

11 10

19

57

68

2

11

6

36

76

21

15

49

43

65

33

43

12

2

13

2 2

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

55

60

65

70

75

80

Philos

ophy

Psych

ology

Ethics

& R

eligio

n

History:

Gen

eral a

nd O

ld W

orld

History:

Am

erica

s

Geogr

aphy

Anthr

opolo

gy, F

olklore

, Cus

toms

Phsyic

al Edu

catio

n & R

ecreat

ion

Econom

ics

Socio

logy

Politic

al Scie

nce

Law

Educa

tion

Mus

ic & F

ine A

rts

Lang

uage

and

Lite

ratur

e

Amer

ican

Litera

ture

Science

s & M

athem

atics

Med

icine

Agricu

lture

Techn

ology

& E

ngin

eerin

g

Milit

ary a

nd N

aval S

cience

Info

rmat

ion S

cienc

e

% of Total Purchases (2001/02)

1.8% 1.7%

3.2%

9.6%

11.4%

0.3%

1.8%

1.0%

6.0%

12.8%

3.5%

2.5%

8.2%

7.2%

10.9%

5.5%

7.2%

2.0%

0.3%

2.2%

0.3% 0.3%

0.0%

1.0%

2.0%

3.0%

4.0%

5.0%

6.0%

7.0%

8.0%

9.0%

10.0%

11.0%

12.0%

13.0%

14.0%

Philos

ophy

Psych

ology

Ethics

& R

eligi

on

Histor

y: G

enera

l and

Old

World

Histor

y: A

mer

icas

Geo

graph

y

Anthr

opolog

y, Folk

lore

, Cus

tom

s

Phsyic

al E

duca

tion &

Rec

reat

ion

Econo

mics

Sociol

ogy

Politic

al S

cienc

eLa

w

Educa

tion

Mus

ic & F

ine A

rts

Lang

uage a

nd L

itera

ture

Amer

ican

Litera

ture

Scienc

es &

Mat

hem

atics

Med

icine

Agricu

lture

Technolo

gy &

Eng

inee

ring

Milit

ary

and N

aval S

cience

Info

rmat

ion

Science

% of Titles Purchased in Subject that have circulated, after 3 years on shelf(overall avg: 45.1%)

36.4%40.0%

57.9%

29.8%

35.3%

50.0%

54.5%

66.7%

36.1%

50.0%

42.9%46.7%

49.0%

65.1%

46.2%

51.5%

32.6%

66.7%

0.0%

61.5%

0.0%

100.0%

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

80.0%

90.0%

100.0%

Philos

ophy

Psych

ology

Ethics

& R

eligi

on

Histor

y: G

enera

l and

Old

World

Histor

y: A

mer

icas

Geo

graph

y

Anthr

opolog

y, Folk

lore

, Cus

tom

s

Phsyic

al E

duca

tion &

Rec

reat

ion

Econo

mics

Sociol

ogy

Politic

al S

cienc

eLa

w

Educa

tion

Mus

ic & F

ine A

rts

Lang

uage a

nd L

itera

ture

Amer

ican

Litera

ture

Scienc

es &

Mat

hem

atics

Med

icine

Agricu

lture

Technolo

gy &

Eng

inee

ring

Milit

ary

and N

aval S

cience

Info

rmat

ion

Science

% of Titles Purchased in Subject that have circulated >1, after 3 years on shelf(overall avg: 22.1%)

0.0%

20.0%

36.8%

12.3%14.7%

0.0%

54.5%

33.3%

13.9%

25.0%

14.3%13.3%

22.4%

39.5%

27.7%

33.3%

9.3%

33.3%

0.0%

23.1%

0.0%

50.0%

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

Philos

ophy

Psych

ology

Ethics

& R

eligi

on

Histor

y: G

enera

l and

Old

World

Histor

y: A

mer

icas

Geo

graph

y

Anthr

opolog

y, Folk

lore

, Cus

tom

s

Phsyic

al E

duca

tion &

Rec

reat

ion

Econo

mics

Sociol

ogy

Politic

al S

cienc

eLa

w

Educa

tion

Mus

ic & F

ine A

rts

Lang

uage a

nd L

itera

ture

Amer

ican

Litera

ture

Scienc

es &

Mat

hem

atics

Med

icine

Agricu

lture

Technolo

gy &

Eng

inee

ring

Milit

ary

and N

aval S

cience

Info

rmat

ion

Science

Total # Circulations (588 total)

47

25

47

40

1

1719

21

68

18

10

47

58

94

58

19 20

0

11

04

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Philos

ophy

Psych

ology

Ethics

& R

eligi

on

Histor

y: G

enera

l and

Old

World

Histor

y: A

mer

icas

Geo

graph

y

Anthr

opolog

y, Folk

lore

, Cus

tom

s

Phsyic

al E

duca

tion &

Rec

reat

ion

Econo

mics

Sociol

ogy

Politic

al S

cienc

eLa

w

Educa

tion

Mus

ic & F

ine A

rts

Lang

uage a

nd L

itera

ture

Amer

ican

Litera

ture

Scienc

es &

Mat

hem

atics

Med

icine

Agricu

lture

Technolo

gy &

Eng

inee

ring

Milit

ary

and N

aval S

cience

Info

rmat

ion

Science

% of Total Circ.

0.7%1.2%

4.3%

8.0%

6.8%

0.2%

2.9%3.2%

3.6%

11.6%

3.1%

1.7%

8.0%

9.9%

16.0%

9.9%

3.2% 3.4%

0.0%

1.9%

0.0%0.7%

0.0%

1.0%

2.0%

3.0%

4.0%

5.0%

6.0%

7.0%

8.0%

9.0%

10.0%

11.0%

12.0%

13.0%

14.0%

15.0%

16.0%

17.0%

Philos

ophy

Psych

ology

Ethics

& R

eligi

on

Histor

y: G

enera

l and

Old

World

Histor

y: A

mer

icas

Geo

graph

y

Anthr

opolog

y, Folk

lore

, Cus

tom

s

Phsyic

al E

duca

tion &

Rec

reat

ion

Econo

mics

Sociol

ogy

Politic

al S

cienc

eLa

w

Educa

tion

Mus

ic & F

ine A

rts

Lang

uage a

nd L

itera

ture

Amer

ican

Litera

ture

Scienc

es &

Mat

hem

atics

Med

icine

Agricu

lture

Technolo

gy &

Eng

inee

ring

Milit

ary

and N

aval S

cience

Info

rmat

ion

Science

variance: 2001/02 purchases,after 3 years on shelf

Phi

loso

phy,

-1.

2%

Psy

chol

ogy,

-0.

5%

Eth

ics

& R

elig

ion,

1.1

%

His

tory

: Gen

eral

and

Old

Wor

ld, -

1.6%

His

tory

: Am

eric

as, -

4.6%

Geo

grap

hy, -

0.2%

Ant

hrop

olog

y, F

olkl

ore,

Cus

tom

s, 1

.0%

Phs

yica

l Edu

catio

n &

Rec

reat

ion,

2.2

%

Eco

nom

ics,

-2.

5%

Soc

iolo

gy, -

1.2%

Pol

itica

l Sci

ence

, -0.

5%

Law

, -0.

8%

Edu

catio

n, -

0.2%

Mus

ic &

Fin

e A

rts,

2.6

%

Lang

uage

and

Lite

ratu

re, 5

.1%

Am

eric

an L

itera

ture

, 4.3

%

Sci

ence

s &

Mat

hem

atic

s, -

4.0%

Med

icin

e, 1

.4%

Agr

icul

ture

, -0.

3%

Tec

hnol

ogy

& E

ngin

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g, -

0.3%

Mili

tary

and

Nav

al S

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ce, -

0.3%

Info

rmat

ion

Sci

ence

, 0.3

%

-5.0%

-4.0%

-3.0%

-2.0%

-1.0%

0.0%

1.0%

2.0%

3.0%

4.0%

5.0%

6.0%

1.8%1.7%

3.2%

9.6%

11.4%

0.3%

1.8%

1.0%

6.0%

12.8%

3.5%

2.5%

8.2%

7.2%

10.9%

5.5%

7.2%

2.0%

0.3%

2.2%

0.3%0.3%

-5.0%

0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

Phi

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& R

elig

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His

tory

: Gen

eral

and

Old

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His

tory

: Am

eric

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grap

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ore,

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Rec

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Eco

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Soc

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Law

Edu

catio

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Mus

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Lang

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and

Lite

ratu

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Am

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Tec

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Info

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Sci

ence

% of Total Purchases

% of Total Circ.

variance

variance: 2002/03 purchases,after 2 years on shelf

Phi

loso

phy,

-0.

8%

Psy

chol

ogy,

-0.

1%

Eth

ics

& R

elig

ion,

-0.

5%

His

tory

: Gen

eral

and

Old

Wor

ld, -

3.0%

His

tory

: Am

eric

as, -

6.9%

Geo

grap

hy, -

0.4%

Ant

hrop

olog

y, F

olkl

ore,

Cus

tom

s, -

1.1%

Phs

yica

l Edu

catio

n &

Rec

reat

ion,

-0.

4%

Eco

nom

ics,

0.8

%

Soc

iolo

gy, 2

.6%

Pol

itica

l Sci

ence

, -1.

5%

Law

, -1.

2%

Edu

catio

n, 1

.4%

Mus

ic &

Fin

e A

rts,

-1.

0%

Lang

uage

and

Lite

ratu

re, 0

.5%

Am

eric

an L

itera

ture

, 0.2

%

Sci

ence

s &

Mat

hem

atic

s, 1

.7%

Med

icin

e, 8

.6%

Agr

icul

ture

, 0.6

%

Tec

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& E

ngin

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g, 0

.7%

Mili

tary

and

Nav

al S

cien

ce, -

0.4%

Info

rmat

ion

Sci

ence

, 0.0

%

-7.0%

-6.0%

-5.0%

-4.0%

-3.0%

-2.0%

-1.0%

0.0%

1.0%

2.0%

3.0%

4.0%

5.0%

6.0%

7.0%

8.0%

9.0%

1.7%1.9%

3.2%

8.3%

11.8%

1.0%1.7%

0.4%

7.5%

11.0%

2.5%2.5%

7.1%

5.1%

10.7%

6.1%

8.2%

4.4%

1.4%2.1%

1.3%

0.1%

-10.0%

-5.0%

0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

Phi

loso

phy

Psy

chol

ogy

Eth

ics

& R

elig

ion

His

tory

: Gen

eral

and

Old

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ld

His

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: Am

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Eco

nom

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Pol

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Law

Edu

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Mus

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Info

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Sci

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% of Total Purchases

% of Total Circ.

variance

variance: 2003/04 purchases,after 1 year on shelf

Phi

loso

phy,

1.8

%

Psy

chol

ogy,

2.2

%

Eth

ics

& R

elig

ion,

-0.

4%

His

tory

: Gen

eral

and

Old

Wor

ld, -

4.2%

His

tory

: Am

eric

as, -

4.7%

Geo

grap

hy, -

0.2%

Ant

hrop

olog

y, F

olkl

ore,

Cus

tom

s, 1

.3%

Phs

yica

l Edu

catio

n &

Rec

reat

ion,

-1.

1%

Eco

nom

ics,

6.0

%

Soc

iolo

gy, 6

.4%

Pol

itica

l Sci

ence

, 0.9

%

Law

, -1.

0%

Edu

catio

n, -

5.5%

Mus

ic &

Fin

e A

rts,

-3.

1%

Lang

uage

and

Lite

ratu

re, -

3.1%

Am

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an L

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ture

, -0.

1%

Sci

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6.0%

Med

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By Recommender  AFTER 1 YEAR      

 # Titles Purchas

ed

% of Total

Purchases

Total Price

% of Total Price

# of Titles

Circulated

% of Titles Purchased in Subject

# of Titles

Circulated > Once

% of Titles Purchased in Subject

# Circulatio

ns

Library                  

Masters in Education program                  

Louzecky                  

Buser                  

Emmerichs                  

Byrand                  

McCarty                  

Bockstiegel                  

Atwood-Harvey                  

Flannery                  

Gates                  

Uebelherr                  

Milicia                  

Krebs                  

Reevesman                  

Margrett                  

Gross                  

Schank                  

Peneski                  

Grittinger                  

Scherff                  

Crossley                  

Future use/modification

• Continue to watch as data grows– Summative– Variance

• What will happen as number of book expenditures grows?

• Add a regular ILL assessment component

Re-balancing the print acquisitions budget:

books vs. periodicals  

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