Collection Management

Collection Analysis Plus Solutions Tag Reports TitleMatch

Our professional librarians create and update book lists to fit every librarian's unique needs.

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Collection Analysis Plus Solutions (CAPS)

Analyze your collection on Mackin.com, or call us and our experienced librarians can walk you through a custom collection analysis step by step.

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What information is included in my analysis?

We analyze your existing collection and then compare it to an exemplary collection that meets size, age and distribution standards for your student population. We provide a suggested weeding list of older items in your collection. Below is a sampling of the information provided:

Distribution of Your Dewey Sections

Fiction

Nonfiction

Nonprint

Reference

Material Distribution

60%

Print

25%

eBooks

5%

Databases

10%

Audiobooks

Average Date of Publication

Tag Report

Many school districts are striving to make their library collections more diverse to reflect the school populations and bring awareness to diversity issues. Mackin’s team of professional librarians and teachers have curated a collection of descriptive, curricular tags to assist with this need. We’ve developed a system where users can view a report of their library collection based on our set of tagged titles. The tag report is available as a collection analysis tool to show how your collection is distributed across these curriculum elements.

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TitleMatch

TitleMatch helps you manage your collection in real time. As you add to your list, titles that are already in your collection are highlighted so that you won’t accidentally order duplicates. TitleMatch allows you to view matches in a collection for a single or multiple locations. Plus, it will tell you if your titles are on a list or previous Mackin orders.

TitleMatch Activation

Select the uploaded library collections (MARC Records) you want activated for TitleMatch. When a collection is activated, all your search results will include indicators for exact or possible matches. Note: You may need to click the columns link in the top right corner of your search results to show the TitleMatch column.

Colleague TitleMatch

Colleague TitleMatch helps schools with multiple librarians avoid ordering duplicates. When enabled, your colleagues can view matches to titles on your list while searching for titles or reviewing their lists. Enable a list for Colleague TitleMatch by entering your colleague’s email in the list information. You can also create a preferred list of colleagues on the TitleMatch page to easily assign them when creating or editing lists.

Using Default Lists For Multiple Collection Ordering

Assign a default order list to each collection to save time when ordering for multiple collections. If none of the existing lists from the drop-down box are appropriate, you may want to create a new list for this purpose. Your default designations will be displayed on the Full Record screen so you can immediately save that title to multiple lists.

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Exact ISBN
Possible Match by Title/Author/Added Entry/Series Title
Possible Match by Title/Author or just Title
Exact ISBN on a submitted list
Possible Match by Title/Author/Added Entry/Series Title on a submitted list
Exact ISBN on current list
Possible Match by Title/Author/Added Entry/Series Title on a current list
Exact ISBN on colleague’s list
Possible Match by Title/Author/Added Entry/Series Title on a colleague’s list