rock, paper, scissors, counter, sushi: making sense of usage
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Rock, paper, scissors, COUNTER, SUSHI:Making sense of usage
Jennifer BazeleyHead, Collection Access & AcquisitionsMiami University Libraries
ALAO CMIG Workshop June 9, 2014
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The truth of the matter
https://twitter.com/FakeLibStats/status/464074593049649153
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The approach
▪ Select
▪ Obtain
▪ Compile
▪ Store
▪ Analyze - Visualize
▪ Disseminate – Share
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Select - Understand the standards
SUSHI & COUNTER
https://www.flickr.com/photos/crobj/14269377082/
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COUNTER JR1 GOA
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COUNTER JR2
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COUNTER JR5
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JR3 - Mobile
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Select
▪ Which usage is important?– E-books, e-journals, databases (COUNTER & non-
COUNTER reports)– PDA– Link resolver & A to Z– Discovery service– Book and journal circulation numbers (checkouts,
internal use, renewals)
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Caveats: there’s always a “but”
▪ Vendor/publisher discrepancies
▪ Technology fails
▪ Garbage in, garbage out
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Obtain
▪ Electronic– Publisher, platform, vendor, consortia websites– Self-service, automated e-mails, gentle prodding of
vendor
▪ Print– Your friendly ILS– Review files, statistics, web management reports
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Compile
▪ Usage statistics software
▪ Excel
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Compile
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Compile
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Store
▪ Someplace in addition to your hard drive– Library or departmental server– Dropbox– Google Drive– Usage statistics software
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Analyze
▪ Combine/compare usage with other data
▪ Benchmark against peer/aspirational institutions
▪ Apply existing principles (e.g., Pareto)
▪ Patterns over time, across platforms, across locations
▪ Predict/extrapolate
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Visualize
▪ Charts & graphs
▪ Pivot tables
▪ Word clouds
▪ Infographics
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Analyze
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Visualize
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Analyze
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Visualize
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Visualize
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Analyze
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Visualize
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Analyze
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Analyze
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Visualize
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Analyze
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Visualize
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Disseminate - Share
▪ Google Drive
▪ LibGuides
▪ EBSCOnet
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Disseminate – Share
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Disseminate – Share
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Disseminate – Share
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Disseminate – Share
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Useful Resources
▪ Bucknell, Terry. – “Garbage in, gospel out: twelve reasons why
librarians should not accept cost per download figures at face value.” The Serials Librarian, 63 no. 2 (2012): 192-212.
▪ Tufte, Edward R. – Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.:
Graphics Press, 1990.
▪ COUNTER v. 4– http://www.projectcounter.org/r4/COPR4.pdf– http://www.projectcounter.org/r4/APPF.xls
▪ SUSHI– http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/librarians /