Collecting Statistics

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Collecting Statistics

• A College Library's Approach

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Types of Statistics Collected

• Instruction and Reference
• Database Usage
• Journal Usage (Print Electronic)
• Subject Page Usage
• Book Circulation Patterns
• Live Reference Behavior
• Web Based Surveys

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Instruction and Reference
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Instruction and Reference
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Database Usage

• We collect outgoing usage of databases.
• Data collected from both Index and Database page
  and Reference Tools page
• Data is collected on both free and subscription
  sites.
• Good match with some vendors, not with others.

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Database Usage

• Current Term (Live Data)
• Year 2000 data
• Data analyzed by location
• Top Free Sites
• www.yourdictionary.com 107
• Turabian from Concordia Univ. 83

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Journal usage

• Collect data on in-house journal usage
• Used as one of the criteria when canceling
• Collect data on ILL borrowing
• Purchased new titles based on ILL
• E-journal click through data

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Journal usage

• Paper Journal Usage
• Journal Locator Usage

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Subject Page Statistics

• Subject pages are dynamically built pages using
  MySQL and PHP
• Creates an easy to use interface for subject
  specialist to use when creating Web pages

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Subject Page Statistics

• Most used resources
• CTW Catalog 234
• Medline 132
• First Non-Database site at 23
• Latin American Network Information Center LANIC
  with 43 uses.

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Subject Page Statistics

• Most used pages
• Art 403
• Biology 240
• Government 236
• Economics 218
• Subject and Resource combined

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Book Circulation

• Book circulation based on year of publication and
  LC classification
• Books, Videos, and CD Acquisitions and
  circulation. Pub year 1996--1999

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Live Reference Statistics
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Web Based Surveys

• Library Survey
• Personal Research Session Survey
• Tutorial Software Survey
• Etc.
• Shameless Plug for next talk !

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For the programmers

• sql "INSERT INTO dstats (url,iad,when,host,refe
  rer) VALUES('url','iad',now(),
  'REMOTE_ADDR','HTTP_REFERER')"
• mysql_query(sql,db)
• Header("Location url")

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Why???

• Use of databases for staff statistics
• Common format
• All in one location
• Automatic collection
• Start collecting, analyze when needed
• Web based access for staff to view statistics