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Enhancing E-Book Findability: Investigating Cataloging Strategies to Boost Usage

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This study by Catherine Sassen and Karen R. Harker examines the impact of cataloging enhancements on e-book usage at the University of North Texas Libraries. It addresses the importance of making e-books findable to promote usage effectively. Through a retrospective cohort design, the research analyzes the influence of catalog records, including tables of contents and summary notes, on user engagement. Findings suggest that catalog enhancements significantly increase usage, especially for newer titles. This research aims to fill gaps in understanding why some e-books are more frequently utilized than others.

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Enhancing E-Book Findability: Investigating Cataloging Strategies to Boost Usage

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  1. Cataloging that Works: How to Make E-books Findable Catherine Sassen, MLS, PhD Principal Catalog Librarian Karen R. Harker, MLS, MPH Collection Assessment Librarian University of North Texas Libraries Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group June 29, 2014

  2. Outline

  3. Background • Given: If you want people to use your e-books, you need to make them findable. office.microsoft.com

  4. Why? Used 6 times, 77 pages viewed Used 0 times, 0 pages viewed

  5. Problem Statement If the catalog record includes a table of contents note and/or a summary note, -- is the e-book more likely to be used? -- will it be used a greater number of times?

  6. Literature Review Circulation analysis studies concerning catalog enhancements • Four experimental studies • Five retrospective cohort studies • In eight of nine studies, researchers found that enhanced catalog records were associated with usage.

  7. Gaps we hope to fill • What is it about some items that makes them more likely to be used than others? • Does this also apply to e-books? office.microsoft.com/

  8. What We Expected to Find • Usage affected by catalog enhancements. • Usage also affected by publication year. • But, usage still affected by catalog enhancements, controlling for publication year. office.microsoft.com

  9. Methods

  10. Design: Retrospective CohortIn Public Health

  11. Design: Retrospective CohortIn Library Science

  12. Period of Time

  13. 2 Platforms & 3 Collections

  14. Dependent Variables • What we were most interested in • Outcomes

  15. What mean you, “Usage”? • Count of Uses (Usage) • COUNTER BR1: # Sessions • COUNTER BR2: # Downloads • Number of titles used at least once (Title Used)

  16. Independent Variables Catalog Enhancements Publication Year 1975 • Table of Contents (MARC 505) • Summary (MARC 520)

  17. Comparisons By Catalog Enhancement By Publication Year Group Quartiles Before 1998 Between 1998 & 2001 Between 2002 & 2007 In or After 2008 • Has Neither • Has TOC Only • Has TOC or Both • Has Summary Only • Has Summary or Both • Has Either • Has Both

  18. Results: Mean Uses by CE • Mean Usage differs by catalog enhancement

  19. Results: Total Uses by CE • Overall usage differs by catalog enhancement

  20. Results: Titles Used OR=2.19,95% CI: 2.07-2.32 • OR: 2.34, 95% CI: 2.25-2.43

  21. Results: Uses by Pub Year Group

  22. Results: Titles by Publication Year and Catalog Enhancement • Distribution of titles in each CE varies by publication year Either or Both

  23. Results: Titles used stratified for publication year Odds Ratios. Unshaded values are significant at 95% CI.

  24. Summary • Publication year directly associated with usage • More recent titles used more. • Catalog enhancements associated with usage • Either is better than neither. • Both is better than neither oreither. • Still somewhat true controlling for publication year • Oldest and newest titles with CE used more

  25. Limitations • Only 2 e-book platforms • Only 2 years for measuring usage • Confluence of COUNTER (BR1) titles used with BR2 (sections used) measures

  26. Bibliography https://tinyurl.com/mkuseh9 Contact Information Catherine Sassen, MLS, PhD Catherine.Sassen@unt.edu Karen R. Harker, MLS, MPH Karen.Harker@unt.edu

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