======================================================================== 70 Philip: In your earlier message today you asked: ---------------------------------- Best of luck - has anybody else used more sophisticated self-monitoring to justify their activities? Philip Guest Carto-bibliographic project University of Manchester ----------------------------------- Here at the University of Georgia we do monitor the collection activities in a semi-sophisticated manner. It is done to justify the collection and to plan, especially collection development (I have changed the Collection Development Policy several times because of the use statistics we generate). User counts are recorded. Records are kept of circulation and pick-up counts. This data is recorded by status (Faculty, Grad., Undergrad., Other) and by type of material (Air photo, atlas, map; usgs topo series, thematic, etc.) and by geographical areas (GA, SE US, West US, Europe, Asia, etc.). If you want more info I will be glad to send it to you. Johnnie Sutherland, University of Georgia +------------------------------------------------------------+ ' Johnnie D. Sutherland JSUTHERL@UGA ' ' Curator of Maps [log in to unmask] ' ' Map Collection ' ' Science Library Phone: 706-542-0690 ' ' University of Georgia FAX: 706-542-6523 ' ' Athens, Georgia 30602-7412 ' +------------------------------------------------------------+