Library Analytics: Shaping the Future — Consortial Usage Statistics Analytics and the CC-PLUS Project

McDonald, John; McEvoy, Kathleen; Osterman, Anne; Morris, Jill

doi:10.7771/2380-176x.8310

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“…A promising tool is CC-PLUS (Consortia Collaborating on a Platform for Library Usage Statistics), a project funded by IMLS (the American Institute of Museum and Library Services) to develop an open-source application that harvests and manages COUNTER data from publishers (McDonald et al, 2018). CC-PLUS is not the sole tool being developed by the consortia community to handle statistical data; other projects include the usage statistics portal for member libraries of the Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic Libraries (Ye et al, 2018) and CELUS by CzechELib (CzechELib, 2022).…”

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Adjusting the library performance standards for consortia services: a case study

Gonda,

Papatheodorou

2023

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PurposeThis study proposes a framework for performance measurement of library consortia services by implementing the indicators listed in ISO 11620. The framework is validated by using real data from HEAL-Link, the national consortium of Greek academic and research libraries to calculate the indicators.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reports on the related work regarding the services consortia offer to their members and the known methods and tools for assessing consortia services; the HEAL-Link case study, the aggregation and handling of data, is presented; ISO 11620 performance indicators for HEAL-Link services are calculated, and the results are discussed in terms of what was learnt- about the consortium, about measuring consortia services performance, and about the standard.FindingsISO 11620 could be used to measure performance for assessing consortia services. The performance indicators’ results reflect the two major events (mergers and COVID pandemic) that took place during the time of the study. ISO 11620 offers a basic insight that could be well complemented with other tools and standards.Originality/valueThe current study suggests that a widely accepted, easily applied, benchmarking ISO standard could be used to measure common consortia services’ performance, thus contributing to consortia assessment.

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“…Α promising tool is CC-PLUS (Consortia Collaborating on a Platform for Library Usage Statistics), a project funded by IMLS (the American Institute of Museum and Library Services) to develop an open-source application that harvests and manages COUNTER data from publishers (McDonald et al. , 2018).…”

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Adjusting the library performance standards for consortia services: a case study

Gonda,

Papatheodorou

2023

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“…Yet, statistics still demonstrate reasonable usage of physical materials and remote storage in libraries. 5 Thus, this research aims to reexamine students' behaviors and preferences about using physical resources in the library stacks and in remote storage. This study explores the different habits and inclinations of undergraduate versus postgraduate students and those with experience in remote storage requests versus those without.…”

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Reevaluating Remote Library Storage in the Digital Age: A Comparative Study

Chiu¹,

Wong²

2023

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Despite the popularity of mobile and digital technologies, physical collections still have high user demand in academic libraries and grow continuously. With renovation projects providing more studying and collaboration space, efforts to relocate materials to storage facilities are necessary for major libraries. With the change in student information needs and preferences, it is essential to reinvestigate their behavior and preferences for the use of physical resources and remote storage items. An online survey was conducted in a major international comprehensive university in Hong Kong, China, to explore these questions. Statistical tests were also performed to compare the difference between undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as those with versus those without experience requesting items from storage. Undergraduate and postgraduate respondents have some statistically different behaviors in their information-seeking and usage preferences for physical resources, both on library shelves and in remote storage. Although respondents generally prefer resources in electronic formats, physical materials still play a vital role in their usage for academic purposes. Though accessibility was their main concern, they would use storage items, especially when those were the only materials available. Respondents suggested some improvements, such as reducing the retrieval time, enriching online catalog information, providing a reading room at remote storage, and restoring items with high usage statistics to open shelves. Scant current studies focus on user preferences and needs for remote library storage or libraries in East Asia. Also, reexamining the issue in the Internet environment of the globalized knowledge economy is necessary due to changes in students' information requirements. This research would be useful to establish library collection management and storage policies.

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Library Analytics: Shaping the Future — Consortial Usage Statistics Analytics and the CC-PLUS Project

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Adjusting the library performance standards for consortia services: a case study

Adjusting the library performance standards for consortia services: a case study

Reevaluating Remote Library Storage in the Digital Age: A Comparative Study

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