The Alliance’s “shared collection” definition envisions a collaborative effort to maximize the members’ available resources through coordinated, intentional approaches to local collection development and resource sharing across members. A necessary precursor to identifying, designing, and implementing these approaches is a baseline understanding of the current attributes of the Alliance shared collection. Reaching this understanding requires analysis within, and across, members’ shareable collections.
As a starting point for an ongoing and evolving Alliance-wide collection analysis effort, the Collection Analysis Taskforce was tasked with defining and conducting a pilot project that focused on the collection of “last copy” monographs held across the Alliance. The group conducted this work from October 2025 through June of 2026, and the results of the project are available below.
Project Deliverables
- CATF Final Report
- CATF Data Sets
- Last copy counts based on initial Alma Analytics reports (Google Sheets, 3KB)
- General breakdowns by LC class, publication date, and language (Google Sheets, 68 KB)
- Breakdown by Summit and ILL usage (Google Sheets, 54 KB)
- All Summit-loaned titles (Google Sheets, 10.7 MB)
- All ILL-requested titles (Google Sheets, 2.4 MB)
- Institution-specific title lists (Google Shared Drive folder)
- The files in this space are zipped Excel spreadsheets.
- Titles held by multiple members (Google Sheets, 10 MB)
- Titles held by no members (Google Sheets, 9.7 MB)
- Documentation: How to use institution-specific files to retrieve item-level data from Alma (Google Docs, 276 KB)