ArLA 2026 Annual Conference

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9:00am CDT

Let's Not Get Analytic Retentive: Using Worldshare Management Services (WMS) Analytics for Collection Development and Assessment

Saturday October 17, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am CDT

TBA

Assessment may seem like rocky terrain, but it is an important path of library work, whether you do on-going assessment throughout the year or at the end of the year for your annual report. If you use OCLC’s Worldshare Management Services (WMS) as your ILS, you already have a ready-made compass for navigating your library’s collection data–Analytics. In this presentation, sponsored by the WMS Community of Interest, two technical services librarians will discuss how to use WMS Analytics reports to perform collection development, assess circulation usage, and maybe ditch the manual spreadsheets for end-of-year reporting. This session will demonstrate how to run at least three of the classic reports in Analytics, as well as how to create some useful, custom reports with Report Designer. This presentation is primarily aimed at WMS users of any experience level who want to learn some of the basics of running and creating reports in Analytics. However, anyone is welcome who may want new ideas for using their ILS collection reports to assess, expand, or even weed their collection. Attendees will come away with the practical knowledge of how to get more results out of WMS Analytics, how to avoid data pitfalls from some reporting features, and how to use the data from collection reports to make the assessment journey less…tense.

Speakers

Angela Black

Technical Services Librarian, Arkansas Tech University

Angela Black is the Technical Services Librarian at the Ross Pendergraft Library at Arkansas Tech University.

Melissa Freiley

Associate Librarian for Technical Services, Hendrix College

Melissa Freiley is the associate librarian for Technical Services at the Bailey Library at Hendrix College.

Saturday October 17, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am CDT
TBA

Break Out Session

Track Mount Nebo Rim Trail
Audience Academic/University
global Y

10:00am CDT

Traveler Overview

Saturday October 17, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am CDT

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This session will introduce the Arkansas State Library’s Traveler Statewide Digital Resource Program, highlight some of the database offerings, and offer tips on how you can use these valuable digital resources to support classroom instruction and reference services.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to access the Traveler resources, independently search several resources, and locate available staff training and marketing materials on the State Library’s webpage.

The Traveler resources are an evergreen topic. While this may be review information for some people there are always conference attendees who have never heard of the Traveler program.

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