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We want to encourage continued growth by meeting our users’ unique needs.
Living in a digital world means we have a lot of data about:• what people like to read • how often they’re reading• how they find books they would like to read
• View titles your patrons have on hold• View current checkouts, holds and metered access usage• See an overview of your digital library, including overall checkouts,
holds and number of patrons
By correlating this data with what we know about our patrons, purchasing becomes a much smarter process.
Selectors can choose titles with high hold to checkout ratios, anticipate series borrowing patterns, and budget for next year’s growth.
• View patron checkouts by checkout ID, library card number, or title• View new user registrations by day, month and branch• View checkouts by day or month organized by unique user
Our most successful library partners are using this data to set goals for user registration and measure their success toward those goals.
Our library partner services team can provide marketing and outreach materials and training to help you meet your growth objectives.
Use your purchase order history to determine which purchases saw the most use and where you might allocate funds toward some mid- and back-list titles.
Remember, our average user is increasing the amount she reads digitally. We can support her lending habits with great titles from a publisher’s entire catalog.
Using what we know about our average users and the statistics about our library collection, we can rely on Content Reserve to help automate collection development.