nest expands options for collection strategists

Paratext’s technology 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 authorized users to create their own Library Groups.  This reveals a wholly new view of your collection.

Using the ‘our nest’ feature, managers and strategist may create unique library groups from over 750 academic library collections in the bird & nest inventory. You can craft the group according to whatever criteria you wish.

This new functionality takes what used to be months of painstaking—often inconclusive—research into peer holdings into a brief exercise. 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.)

• With bird records themselves, Paratext has 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, measure compliance and competitiveness; and discover new Open Access or commercial titles previously unknown.     

For librarians, please learn more here.

For media groups, find full press release here.