Leaving a Trail: Navigating Collection Assessment at the State Law Library

The State Law Library serves the legal research needs of the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals as well as the citizens of the state. This capstone aims to define the process of and perform collection assessment on the print resources held at the library, both on the shelves and available in the archives. To achieve this, I researched collection assessment methods and techniques and defined representative segments from different subjects within the collection. After collecting data on these segments using custom Koha reports, I cleaned up and performed simple analysis on the data before compiling my relevant findings and recommendations into a usable report. Finally, I created a road map for future collection assessment based on my research and methods used during this project.