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Annual Reports 2024: 2 Library Collection

Library Collection

In this section, you will report the library's 'Holdings', simply what materials are in your library's collection (books, DVDs, audiobooks, etc.). It is not a hard section as NCLS has provided your Polaris in the Master AR Spreadsheet 2024. You may optionally have adjustments to the data we provide. Feel free to make those adjustments when inputting answers into Bibliostat CollectConnect.

2024 UPDATE:

This section has changed quite a bit, as many questions have been removed. Please be mindful that the numbering for questions has changed as a result.

2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.19

The following answers are NOT provided by NCLS. Please enter a number for the following, based on the explanation of each below:

2.8 Total Uncataloged

You'll have to come up with this number yourself, as there's no way for NCLS to run an ILS report for materials not in the catalog. Uncataloged books are intentionally uncataloged and often include either:

  1. Very rare or special books, or
  2. Inexpensive titles not worth cataloging but still made available to patrons (like a collection of paperbacks).

2.9 Total Print Serials

This is your magazine subscriptions. DLD's instructions say, "Volumes are a unit established by the publisher. Enter the number of volumes held, including duplicate copies of volumes, regardless of whether the material is bound, unbound or on microform."

2.10 All Other Print Materials

Include print materials which do not meet the definition of a book or serial, and which are not counted in other categories of holdings. Many libraries answer zero here.

2.19 All Other Print Material

Include additions to uncataloged books and current print serials within Additions to Holdings - All Other Print Materials. You'd be counting these in 2.10's holdings as well.