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Solving Budget Problems with Electronic Resource Analysis (without Firing Anyone or Cutting Services!)
Conference Track
2. Collection Development & Assessment
Keywords
Usage Statistics . . . and . . . Cost-Per-Search
Learning Objectives
Following this session, participants will be able to find new ways to question the status-quo, make difficult deselection decisions decidedly easier and encourage buy-in from reluctant stakeholders.
Abstract
Tracking usage statistics and cost-per-search helps analyze electronic subscription collections. Many other less-than-obvious factors go into collection development and weeding decisions. Learn how CSU-Pueblo absorbed a $50,000 budget cut without firing anyone or cutting services to the campus. They merely examined the data you don’t think about.
Presenters
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/044c718b379844c2e418a4b327481b7d.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Maria Hugger, MA, MLIS, EBSCO")