LIBRARY COLLECTION ANALYSIS USING EXCEL®

Workshop full. To be added to a waiting list, email rrichard@pcc.edu.

Friday, February 29, 2008, 9:00 a.m.- 4:30 pm 
(Lunch on your own.)
Portland Community College, Cascade Campus
Technology Education Building - Room 226
705 N. Killingsworth Street
Portland, OR 97217
For directions and parking information, see http://www.pcc.edu/about/locations/cascade/

Workshop description:

Collection development expert Tony Greiner (co-author of "Analyzing Library Collection Use with Excel", ALA Editions, 2007) will show you how to use Excel to translate circulation and collection data into meaningful reports for making collection management decisions. Learn step-by-step instructions to quickly "crunch the numbers" that often bog down library use studies.

In this workshop you'll learn how to:

• Process raw data into usable information
• Understand the varieties of possible analyses
• Identify the most relevant types of analysis for your collection
• Identify weaknesses and build on the
  strengths identified in your collection
• Illustrate circulation data using charts and graphs

Librarians responsible for collection development in public, school, academic, and special libraries will learn why analyzing collection use is important and how they can analyze that use to better serve their patrons. Attendees will use computers with Excel to run analyses of use of a real library collection.

Presenter's bio
I have been a librarian about 15 years, working in Special Libraries (Minnesota Historical Society) Public (Stillwater (Mn) Public, Tigard, Tualatin and Wilsonville Public in Oregon) and Academic (Portland Community College.)

I've written articles that appeared in Library Journal and Public Libraries, and am co-author of the 2007 ALA Editions title Analyzing Library Collection Use with Excel.

I have given this workshop in Orange Park, Florida, and am booked to give it in West Palm Beach and Miami this coming August. I will also be presenting an online version for the Ontario Libary Association, also this August. I will also be teaching the "Collection Development" class for Emporia State University's Oregon cohort this summer. After that I'm going to Ashland to see Shakespeare. (Not in person. He's dead.)

Need more? I have curly hair, thinning unfortunately,

a wife and a cat and a dog. I live in Portland, Oregon, where it is raining.

Cost:
Student/retiree rate:       $50.00
PORTALS member rate:    $60.00
non-member rate:            $70.00

Registration:
After you have registered, please make out your payment check to PORTALS/PCC and mail to

Roberta Richards, PORTALS Coordinator
Sylvania Library—PORTALS Office
PO Box 19000
Portland, OR 97280-0990