New for 2025!

UNLIKE ANY HOLDINGS ANALYSIS PROGRAM AVAILABLE!

Paratext announces a groundbreaking suite of comparative library analytics built for bird®.

nest® elevates collection insights by comparing your library’s holdings to consortia members; IPEDS peers; FTE peers; Carnegie Classification, and even specific libraries you wish to evaluate.

SEE FURTHER AND REFINE YOUR COLLECTION STRATEGIES

With nest® library directors, collection strategists and subject selectors have broader context to measure progress, spot emerging trends, identify duplication, and refine library budget decisions.

nest® works at both the department levels, as well as with each of the 8,600 database profiles now online in bird®.

How do our overall database holdings compare?

Who else subscribes to this database?

Compare with:

  • Consortia members

  • Carnegie Classification

  • Similar FTEs

  • IPEDS peers

  • Any library you choose!

“We have big goals for our institution. nest gives me the comparative data to achieve those for our library.”
— Director, mid-size college library