Our partners at Compendium Library Services have this week deployed an enhanced version of nest.
In addition to comparing your library’s database holdings to a single peer library, nest now permits users to create your own Library Groups. This reveals a wholly new view of your collection.
Using the new ‘our nest’ feature, managers and strategists can create unique groups from over 750 academic library collections in the bird & nest inventory. Craft the group according to whatever criteria you wish.
This new functionality takes what used to be months of painstaking—and often inconclusive—research into peer holdings and turns it into a thorough report. This multi-library, apples-to-apples comparison is available in no other application, anywhere.
In addition to these enhancements, the following new features are now online as well:
nest analytics are now available across all 180 academic departments. Strategists and managers can now also create your library groups by 40 material format designations ( e.g. primary sources, A/I services; technical reports, etc.)
Paratext’s librarian-editors have added SEE ALSO metadata to the top 750 most widely-held research databases. This allows selector and strategists to pivot immediately to similar resources—Open Access or commercial dB—increasing awareness and saving countless hours of research.
Academic libraries—from small BA schools to Ivy League institutions—are now using bird & nest to improve collection intelligence; refine budget requests; measure compliance and competitiveness; and discover new Open Access or commercial titles previously unknown.
For librarians wishing to learn more about how using nest, please visit here.
For media groups, see full press release here.
