Hurd, SandyFeick, TinaSmith, JohnSimser, Charlene N.2012-05-242012-05-242012-05-24http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13856Librarians are frequently required to support collection and broader management decisions. Line staff and managers need clear and complete data that can be easily accessed and manipulated in order to understand current and historic situations and trends. Presentation of that data must be visually compelling and easily used to support reporting to administrators, funders, and accrediting bodies. The presenters discussed the reports development process, the need for dialogue amongst stakeholders not only to retrieve useful data but also to analyze it, and provided examples of a variety of collections-related reports.This is a preprint of an article submitted for publication in the annual NASIG Conference Proceedings volume of The Serials Librarian, published by Taylor & Francis. Copyright to the article is owned by the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG). The Serials Librarian is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com. The openURL link to the article is: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0361526X.2012.652916CollectionsStatisticsCollection developmentReporting toolsArticle (author version)