Impact of MARCit! Records on Usage of Aggregator Content

Abstract

Donnice Cochenour and Nancy Chaffin, Colorado State University.

In 2005, Colorado State University Libraries acquired the MARCit! service from Ex Libris and began a phased loading of records. In fall of 2005, MARCit! records for three aggregator targets were loaded. A custom query to the SFX statistics tables was written to compare activity from our catalog to these aggregator targets before and after the MARCit! records were loaded. This presentation will describe the workflow to load MARCit! records and the use of SFX statistics to demonstrate the value of this service. Attendees will learn the local procedures CSUL used to load and enhance MARCit! records and see an example of how a custom query can be used to uncover new patterns of resource usage.