Seeing Library Data: A Prototype Data Visualization Application for Librarians

Eaton, Mark

doi:10.1080/19322909.2016.1239236

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“…Experimenting with visualisation techniques to present the evidence of the library's pandemic responses as a visualisation has been an effective way to communicate with staff, community, and industry. The minimalist design has proven useful in an applied, practical setting (Eaton, 2017). The timeline situates the activities and outcomes in the broader environmental and institutional context, depicting the library's responses as a visually engaging and easily understood 'story'.…”

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Visualising the Pandemic Pivot: Using Evidence-based Practice to Capture and Communicate an Academic Library’s COVID-19 Response

Thorpe

Howlett

2021

Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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The COVID-19 pandemic required an agile and quick transformation of services in university libraries in the wake of government health directives. As an evidence-based library, engaging in the collection of evidence and reflective practice was a natural extension of the pandemic response. Once the critical response period had passed, staff at the University of Southern Queensland Library set about capturing the Library's pandemic response within the wider context of society, government, and university activities in the form of a timeline. The timeline served to document actions taken in a time of crisis, recognised the staff workload involved, acknowledge the milestones achieved, and identified new performance measures to evaluate the impact of COVID-safe services. This article offers a lived experience of how a university library can apply an evidence-based practice approach during a crisis. The timeline activity was not just about documenting what the library did and when. It generated a source of evidence which has proved to be a useful tool in planning the return to campus activities and informing decision making about "COVID normal" service models.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualising the Pandemic Pivot: Using Evidence-based Practice to Capture and Communicate an Academic Library’s COVID-19 Response

Thorpe

Howlett

2021

Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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“…Murphy (2013) and Datig and Whiting (2018) have found success using Tableau to track data on library programs, spaces, and services in order to inform future decision making. Finch and Flenner (2016) and Walton and Bunderson (2020) used collection analysis and visualization to identify and track budget and collection development trends over time, while Haren (2014), Eaton (2017), and Wissel and DeLuca (2018) all used visualization methods to explore sets and subsets of data within the library's catalog. Even though many of today's ILSs have more sophisticated analytic capabilities than their predecessors, they often cannot provide the context necessary to make the data truly valuable.…”

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confidence: 99%

Data Visualization for Collection Analysis

Orner

2023

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Due to the increasingly digital nature of library resources and collections, it is sometimes difficult to envision a library’s unified holdings and to understand how they have changed over time. Conducting a collection analysis and applying data visualization techniques can be an excellent way to get a top-down view of the collection as a whole. This article outlines the author’s process for a collection analysis of the Weinberg Memorial Library’s entire catalog of print and electronic resources. It explores the rationale behind some key collection analysis decisions and discusses approaches for data extraction and clean-up as well as visualization using the Tableau software.

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“…14 Eaton used the Ex Libris Primo Applications Programming Interface (API) in creating proof-of-concept visualizations over the collection at Kingsborough Community College. 15 Murphy used the Tableau software package to create visualizations to interactively promote library collections and digitization priorities for library resources at The Ohio State University Library. 16 A number of medical libraries have engaged in visualization activities.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A system for generating research impact visualizations over medical research groups

Mischo

Schlembach

2018

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

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Universities routinely employ research impact assessment mechanisms and tools for grant proposals, resource allocation decisions, and funding budget requests. These impact metrics are often displayed in interactive visualizations and dashboard displays. There is a growing trend for libraries to be cooperatively involved in the gathering and provision of research intelligence and impact data. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has developed a system for generating research impact visualizations for research groups within the newly established Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Using the Elsevier Scopus database Applications Programming Interface, we have created a series of scripts to extract article, conference paper, and book chapter metadata and build supporting database tables. From the database, a dashboard visualization of scaled and clickable display bubbles and publication number labels is generated for each individual researcher. The interactive visualization can retrieve articles and papers published over the last five years, citation information (as cited by number) for each researcher, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health grant matches, and a visualization of the coauthored papers for each author within the cohort. These activities enhance the role of the library in supporting knowledge management and scholarly communication and in fostering campus partnerships and collaborations.

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Seeing Library Data: A Prototype Data Visualization Application for Librarians

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Visualising the Pandemic Pivot: Using Evidence-based Practice to Capture and Communicate an Academic Library’s COVID-19 Response

Visualising the Pandemic Pivot: Using Evidence-based Practice to Capture and Communicate an Academic Library’s COVID-19 Response

Data Visualization for Collection Analysis

A system for generating research impact visualizations over medical research groups

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