Trends at a Glance: A Management Dashboard of Library Statistics

Morton-Owens, Emily; Hanson, Karen L.

doi:10.6017/ital.v31i3.1919

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“…Many librarians have already been doing in-depth visualization work and have documented their achievements in scholarly articles (Braun 2015;Morton-Owens and Hanson 2012;Murphy 2013;Murphy 2015). These investigations are primarily case studies that offer interesting visual solutions to data problems, and they have greatly informed this project.…”

Section: Reading the Visualization Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing Library Data: A Prototype Data Visualization Application for Librarians

Eaton

2016

Journal of Web Librarianship

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Visualizations can add value to raw library data. Tools that programmatically make such visualizations interactive can further increase the value of this data, by giving librarians visual tools to analyze their data sets. To demonstrate these benefits, Kingsborough Community College Library built SeeCollections (http://b7jl.org/seecollections), a web application that visualizes our libraries' collections of books and ebooks. This article discusses the how SeeCollections gathers data from Kingsborough's discovery layer API (Application Programming Interface), and transforms this data to create visualizations for the web. SeeCollections is a lightweight, proof-of-concept data application based on a vendor API. API data is often accessible in academic libraries, but is frequently underutilized. SeeCollections was built to demonstrate the immediate value of these API data sources to Kingsborough librarians, by providing a visual interface to discovery layer data. Keeping in mind the broader literature on data visualization, this article will explore how SeeCollections was built.

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Section: Reading the Visualization Literaturementioning

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Seeing Library Data: A Prototype Data Visualization Application for Librarians

Eaton

2016

Journal of Web Librarianship

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“…The information in the dashboard must fit on a single screen so that it is easy for the user to view the information at a glance (Few, 2006;Morton-Owens & Hanson, 2012). If the information needs to be scroll, it has surpassed limitless of the dashboard (Mahendrawathi et al, 2010).…”

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“…Giglia ( We also review previous works regarding the dashboard usage to find out the dashboard purpose. Firstly, most previous works state that the dashboard been used for performance measurement (DP1) (Bose, 2006;Mahendrawathi et al, 2010;Maheshwari & Janssen, 2013;Morton-Owens & Hanson, 2012;Pauwels et al, 2009;Phippen, Sheppard, & Furnell, 2004;Yigitbasioglu & Velcu, 2012). For example, Phippen et al (2004) describes the dashboard used to report monthly and weekly performance of multinational airline company's website such as visits, visitors, registrations and visits to bookings information.…”

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“…For example, Phippen et al (2004) describes the dashboard used to report monthly and weekly performance of multinational airline company's website such as visits, visitors, registrations and visits to bookings information. Secondly, the dashboard used to guide decision making (DP2) (Bose, 2006;Mahendrawathi et al, 2010;Morton-Owens & Hanson, 2012;Pauwels et al, 2009;Yigitbasioglu & Velcu, 2012). For example, manager use dashboard in marketing to guide on decisions, such as, promotion activities and sales force allocation (Pauwels et al, 2009).…”

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“…Bose (2006) state alert messages can be used to make the user aware of the information needed. Lastly, the dashboard also can be used to monitor trend over time (DP4) (Maheshwari & Janssen, 2013;Morton-Owens & Hanson, 2012;Phippen et al, 2004). By comparing current and past information, the dashboard can identify what trending up or down.…”

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The Need of Dashboard in Social Research Network Sites for Researchers

Apandi¹,

Arshah²

2016

IJSECS

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Nowadays, dashboard has been widely used by organizations to display information based on their objectives such as monitoring business performance or checking the current trend in the niche market. There is a need to investigate whether the researchers also need the dashboard in assisting their research works. There are some issues facing by researchers while using Social Research Network Sites (SRNS) since they could not noticed with information related to research field that they might be interested in because they are huge amounts of information in the SRNS. The inclusion of dashboard in the SRNS has to be explored to understand its relevancy in supporting the researchers work. We review previous works regarding dashboard usage to find the purposes of having dashboard and find researcher needs by reviewing researchers use scenario in the social networking sites. Then, we analyze whether the dashboard purposes can satisfy the researcher needs. From the analysis, we found out that the dashboard is a significant tool in assisting the researchers on: measuring their own research performance, monitoring research trends and alerting them with upcoming events.

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