ARL statistics gathering (NATC)

["Eric Nudell" <emnudell at unm dot edu>]

All,

We were recently contacted by a company called Library Dynamics
(http://www.librarydynamics.com/natc.htm). This company has taken over the
North American Title Count - a project that was once coordinated by ALA.
They say that if we send them our shelflist, they will in turn provide us
with all sorts of statistics about our collection. This looks interesting
for getting ARL statistics, but what they provide is a lot like the
statistics we can generate from our own III system.

Does anyone have experience with Library Dynamics (or the North American
Title Count) and are the statistics provided useful for ARL?

Eric M. Nudell
Systems Administrator
University Libraries
MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-0001

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