ELUNA learns – Alma Analytics – 10/9/2024

• 1:00 pm – 1:05 pm. Introduction
• 1:05 pm – 1:50 pm. Navigating the Troubled Waters of Collection Management with Alma Analytics”
• 1:50 pm – 2:00 pm. Break
• 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm. Creating a Usage Dashboard or Rialto Orders
• 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm. Break
• 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm. Looking for Trouble: Using Alma Analytics To Find Problems in Your Catalog

Note, schedule times are approximate. Schedule may shift slightly during the event.

Navigating the Troubled Waters of Collection Management with Alma Analytics”. Anne Larrivee, Collection Strategist and Anthropology/Sociology Librarian, West Chester University Libraries.

Managing the collection to align with the needs of a library’s target community is a basic tenet of library practice. Librarians typically manage their collections by assessing collection holdings for relevance, focusing on the most effective way to use their collection budget, and ensuring that collection needs are fulfilled. These practices often set up expectations for collection selection, lead to deselection of items within the collection, or may lead to lead to long term retention of some items. Alma Analytics provides tools and reports that offer support for collection management practices. This presentation will review how Analytics can assist with activities such as journal swap analysis, e-resource assessment, and assessing collection gaps. The presenter will show how some of their own collection management projects as a collection strategist librarian have informed their use of analytics to gather data.

Creating a Usage Dashboard or Rialto Orders. Bridgett Bonar, Acquisitions Data Specialist, Dartmouth College Libraries.

General usage dashboards provide insight into e-resource usage data as a whole, on specific platforms, or for individual titles. However, there are many cases where it is beneficial to see usage for a subset of titles based on criteria that are not available in the Usage Data (COUNTER) subject area, and you do not want to rely on the aggregate or estimate usage data in the E-Inventory “Cost Usage” section. One way to accomplish this is to filter an analysis through another. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how I built a usage dashboard focused on material ordered in Rialto using reports from the Funds Expenditure, Physical Items, E-Inventory, and Usage Data (COUNTER) analytics subject areas.

Looking for Trouble: Using Alma Analytics To Find Problems in Your Catalog. Katheryn Lybarger, Director of Cataloging and Metadata Services, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Problems in catalog data can affect how patrons find and access your library resources. They may cause items to be mis-shelved or have problems circulating. They may also make your reports and analyses of metadata incomplete or misleading. By searching for different types of problems directly, we can identify and resolve many issues before they cause any more trouble and often identify where these problems are coming from and prevent them from reoccurring. In this session, we will look at Alma Analytics reports and an accompanying website that can be used to find problems in catalog records (including bibliographic records, holdings, items, and portfolios), and monitor your catalog after cleanup to identify new problems as they show up. We will talk about how to use and modify these analyses to meet the needs of your library.