Workflow and assessment

Adopting the word analysis from the industry term "systems analysis," the library analysis unit offers a practical, business-oriented approach to assessing processes, products, and services utilized in relation to the value that you strive to provide to your user community.

Individual consulting services and group seminars are available to help you assess your workflow. We can offer our expertise in areas such as cataloging, resource sharing, batchloading, and collection analysis. Together we can develop a plan to help you better achieve your library's goals. You can also learn valuable skills at our seminars that focus on enabling you to recognize your library's efficiencies and act on maximizing your technical services resources.

We can work with you and provide an in-depth appraisal of your library's OCLC activity in a core service, as well as offer guidance in critical aspects of 21st century librarianship such as technology and funding through grants.

OCLC activity-related consultations include on-site observation and discussion, coupled with data compilation and analysis that assists a library in achieving a variety of goals such as those related to workflow and resource allocation.

To get more information about our consultation services, or to arrange for an individual custom assessment, please contact Joy Wanden, Library Analyst.

WorldCat Collection Analysis

To make the most of your acquisitions budget, you need precise data that reveals your library's subject-matter strengths, gaps, and overlaps. WorldCat Collection Analysis lets you analyze your collection and compare it to other collections without requiring you to expend extensive staff, time, or financial resources.

Register to view our online demonstration, which walks you through the screens and features of WorldCat Collection Analysis.

Workflow

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Cataloging

This new seminar will focus on the factors that drive your workflow - whether they are your need for high quality bibliographic records, implementation of labor efficiencies, requirement for a more rapid throughput of new materials, building a greater reliance on machine interfaces, or the value you want to derive from your local customizations. We will discuss successful strategies to achieve your goals and a broad range of options that have little to zero OCLC cost impact.

Resource sharing

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Acquisitions

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OCLC Membership reports

OCLC now provides a number of monthly electronic reporting capabilities that in the past were available as print reports only. These resources aid supervisors in managing the less subjective skills, such as production level, so that time need not be consumed with performing manual tallies.

Download the Instruction Sheet for details on how to access both the OCLC Product Usage Statistics (OPUS) report and the Activity Report with both institution and individual authorization report detail:

• The OCLC Product Usage Statistics (OPUS) report is essentially an electronic version of the print Sales Institution Detail report included with each monthly invoice.
• The Activity Report includes activity (at the institution or individual authorization level) about use of FirstSearch, Open WorldCat, Resource Sharing, and Online Cataloging.