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Presentation from Internet Librarian International 2014 on the importance of analytics and metrics for academic libraries.

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Metrics Matter… ILI 2014

London

Ben ShowersHead of Scholarly and

Library Futures

b.showers@jisc.ac.uk

@benshowers

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Introducing Jisc

Jisc offers digital services for UK education and research. The charity does this to achieve its vision for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world.

jisc.ac.uk

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Libraries ignore data at the expense of their students’ success

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Measure what really matters

Where the hell are my keys…?

Library Impact

Anthropologist in the stacks

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Don’t collect it, or measure it, if you’re not going to act on it

Redistribute effort!

Shared data services

Library Analytics and Metrics Project (LAMP)

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Make as much data available as

possible

Think like a dandelion

The best idea for your data will be thought of by someone else!

Playful metrics

What if…

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Ben Showers

Head of Scholarly and Library Futures

@benshowers

b.showers@jisc.ac.uk

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