Subject Librarians Vs Collection Data: How to Use Data to Visualize a Small Monograph Collection

• Published in: Technical services quarterly Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 33 - 53
• Main Author: Looby, Kimberly
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Routledge 02.01.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: analyzing print collection; Anthropology; anthropology collection; Checkout; Collection development; data analysis; data visualization; Librarians; Library collections; monograph evaluation; Print collection visualization; Spreadsheets; Visualization

To understand an Anthropology print collection, a librarian at an urban university created data visualizations. The librarian analyzed the Library of Congress Classification call numbers GN, publication decade, checkout rage, gender of author and title keywords for analysis. The analysis found an ov...