CAP, 'Collection Analysis Project Update: The Final Phase', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v20n06 (February 1993)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 20 no. 6
February 1993
CAP Study Team
"Collection Analysis Project Update: The Final Phase"


The Collection Analysis Project (CAP) has entered its final 
phase.  On November 23 and 24, 1992, the Association of 
Research Libraries' CAP coordinator, Jutta Reed-Scott, held an 
intensive two-day workshop for the CAP Study Team to 
prepare for CAP's conclusion.  The study team reviewed the six 
task force reports submitted in October 1992, and Reed-Scott 
outlined the methodology for assigning priorities to the many 
recommendations in the reports.  The team was given a short 
course on organizing key findings of the reports for inclusion 
in the CAP Final Report that will be submitted to Susan Nutter 
(director of Libraries).

As the real work of the final phase begins, the study team 
must set priorities for more than seventy recommendations 
and create a five-year implementation schedule based on the 
importance of each recommendation.  They also must ensure 
that the costs for implementation are not too great and that 
the responsibility level for each recommendation does not fall 
too heavily on any particular staff member.

Once the recommendations are organized, they will be 
incorporated within the final report along with the 
environmental analysis of the Libraries and the University and 
national trends that served as the framework for the CAP 
Interim Report.  Other sections will include the preface 
written by Nutter, an introduction explaining the methodology 
used during the project, the NCSU Libraries' Collection 
Management philosophy and goals, and summaries of the 
individual task force reports with their recommendations.  The 
CAP Study Team will present the Collection Analysis Project 
Final Report to library department heads in April and to the 
University Library Committee later this spring.