NDP Reports on Best Circulating Books, DVD’s etc.

I meant to blog this from New Orleans since it’s so exciting. This sort of social networked, data mining application of the normative data has the potential to transform specific areas of collection development for public libraries.
Reports on Best Circulating Books, DVDs and Biographies Now Online
Normative Data Project introduces collection development tools for Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and other languages; based on circulation at nearly 500 libraries
NEW ORLEANS, June 25, 2006 – The Normative Data Project (NDP) for Libraries announced today, at the 2006 Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, that reports of “Top 100” best circulating books and DVDs for the French, German, Russian and Spanish languages, as well as biographical works in English, are now available for purchase and downloading on the NDP Web site (http://www.libraryndp.info).
Based on actual circulation data from nearly 500 libraries in North America, these lists provide libraries with unique business intelligence for making collection development, acquisitions and other management decisions. Best circulating lists for Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese are in development and will soon be available for purchase and downloading on the NDP Web site.
I think our chief statistician, Dr. Data (Dr. Bob Molyneux) has done a bang up job here. Give him a call if you’d like to discuss purchasing custom reports or signing up to develop your own.
Stephen