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- Title
Analyzing Current Serials in Virginia: An Application of the Ulrich's serials Analysis System.
- Authors
Metz, Paul; Gasser, Sharon
- Abstract
The article reports that the Virtual Library of Virginia was one of the first subscribers to R.R. Bowker's Ulrich's Serials Analysis System. Creating a database that combined a union report of current serial subscriptions within most academic libraries in the state with the data elements present in Ulrich's made possible a comprehensive analysis designed to inform collective decision-making about serials. The serial analysis system is an analytical tool to provide library professionals with detailed information about their current serial subscriptions, which may be used by an individual library or after record uploading by the members, groups of libraries. As the USAS was a new and complex product, staff from R. R. Bowker offered workshops at which they explained the system and the mechanics for loading local serial data. The USAS was designed to analyze the active titles in a library's collection so there were titles in the institutions' data loads that were not included in the analytical reports.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; DIGITAL libraries; SERIALS subscription agencies; PROBLEM solving; BOWKER, R. R.; DATA analysis; LIBRARIANS; LIBRARY institutes &; workshops; DATABASE searching
- Publication
Portal: Libraries & the Academy, 2006, Vol 6, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1531-2542
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pla.2006.0006