Usage Stats Roundtable at ER&L, Part II
Bonnie Tijerina March 28th, 2008
Below are issues that were touched upon. Hopefully we can have further discussions on these.
Best Practices
It was suggested that we need best practices for gathering and reporting usage statistics. Margaret Hogarth and Virginia Kinman will begin work on this.
Are libraries developing a culture of assessment?
We need to figure out a way to share data with others so we can incorporate the information into how we make decisions.
How are we interpreting or adding value to usage data?
Benchmarks/Baselines
It was asked if there is a way we could derive baselines/benchmarks for subject areas. A ratio between use and FTE was suggested.
User Behavior
Institutions want to use the data that they have to create a better picture of their users. They are working on connecting the data pieces to see where the information is leading. Who is doing this and how are these results used?
NISO Library and Scholarly Usage Data Conversation Wiki
NISO Library and Scholarly Usage Data Conversation wiki was created following the NISO Usage Data Forum, 1-2 November 2007, in Dallas, TX primarily to provide a place for folks who care about library and scholarly usage data to work together to develop a decision framework to help those organizations trying to figure out how to approach usage data.
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