Collection Services & Development Archive

Since the beginning of the fiscal year 4078 customer suggestions have been received, for an average of 272 per week. During September, 1173 customer suggestions were received.

Since 7/1/13, 9135 titles were selected for an average of 609 titles per week. 63926 items were selected for an average of 4262 per week.

From Sept. 2 to Oct. 7th, 135 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received from the libraries. 29 boxes of transfers and 3 boxes of gifts were sent to cataloging for processing. 43 boxes were sent to the Friends. During September Selection staff spent nearly 150 hours working with the withdrawals and gifts. So far in October, staff spent nearly 47 hours working with these materials.

- During July, Materials Selection received 1425 suggestions to purchase material, for an average of 285 suggestions per week.
- Selection ordered a total of 3020 titles and 21400 items during July. In the first two weeks of August there have been 949 titles ordered with a total of 7833 items.
- 2,991 new titles were cataloged during July, including 358 e-media titles.
- 24,652 barcode labels were printed in July; 23,076 for new materials and 1,576 for reprocessed materials.
- 3,488 new titles were received in Cataloging during July.

With one week left in the fiscal year, Materials Selection selected a total of over 41,714 titles for the year and averaged 817 titles per week. A total of over 254,693 items were selected for the year, for an average of 4993 items per week. These figures show nearly 4900 more titles and 950 more items were selected in FY13 than in FY12.

As of June 7, 2013, MSL received 15,415 customer suggestions to purchase materials for the year, or an average of 315 per week. Most of the suggestions received were for print, 10,460. 1656 suggestions for CD Music; 1172 for feature films; 921 for CD books; 524 for e-media; 455 for DVDs (other than feature films); and 227 for Audio Media Players.

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in May was 1.36 working days; average for the FY13 through May is 1.24 working days. This includes only time that materials were in Cataloging; it does not include time in Technical Processing.

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in March was 1 working day; average for the FY13 is 1.2 working days. This includes only time that materials were in Cataloging; it does not include time in Technical Processing.

In February, the average turnaround time for borrowing materials in ILL was 12 calendar days. This includes only time from the date requests are sent out from ILL to the date that they are received in ILL; it does not include routing time between MLS libraries and ILL.

The average daily run for March was 889 items per day, for a total of 18,450 items in March. The average for April so far is 776 items per day. The processors are current on processing all materials, rush and non-rush materials. Study guides and dated materials like continuations are also current.