[Eril-l] Eril-l Digest, Vol 121, Issue 4

Sat Dec 7 13:29:38 PST 2024

Thank you Hal and Judith

Thank you for your response. I regularly collect usage stats for IPEDS and ACRL. Also I collect and track before the renewal time of databases and journals. I do COUNTER 5 total item investigation for databases (to include abstract databases). To track cost per usage, I collect unique item requests for journal titles. For resources that do not use COUNTER, I look up view and check out stats. However, my original question was specifically for the idea of “snapshot” because our director wants one (single) number to include everything. I tried to explain how electronic resources usage number is different than other usage numbers, he insists. So I was wondering if other libraries were doing something similar, and how, if so. 

Thank you all for your feedback. 

Chris

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> Dear Chris,
> I don't have a particular example for you.
> However, I was wondering if you submit ACRL or IPEDS annual statistics?  If
> so, the ACRL lines: 60A: Total E-book and E-media Usage and 61B: E-Serials
> Usage, could be used from every year: 2020-2024. Note that "database" usage
> is not collected (Abstract & Index only, as one example). Even with ACRL or
> IPEDS, the usage data depends entirely on the resources and changes over
> those years. I let everyone know that usage data is useful in the
> aggregate, not in specificity (unless we are looking at a specific
> title's renewal).
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> If you do not report ACRL or IPEDS annual data, I recommend that you choose
> from the usage data you have collected for 2020-2024 and show trends. As
> Hal Bright recommended, break it down into big areas (databases, ejournals,
> ebooks, streaming media) and get a number for each. I think reporting at a
> journal package, title or lower level would be very hard. You'd spend a lot
> of time explaining why (like you mentioned: COVID years free resources)
> usage changed for a particular vendor, package or database.
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> Best,
> 
> Judith
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> --
> Judith Nagata  (she/her)
> Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
> Dinand Library
> College of the Holy Cross
> Worcester, MA 01610
> p: 508-793-2639
> e: jnagata at holycross.edu
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>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:28?AM Electronic Resources in Libraries
>> discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> Our library director would like to have an overview of the library usage
>> for years 2020-2024. He has the concrete print book loan stats, instruction
>> stats, and gate counts so far, and would like something similar for the
>> electronic resources. I told him that usage numbers are a little different
>> for the electronic resources, because during those years, we had various
>> factors. JSTOR offered free COVID access to their resources, EBSCO started
>> to offer COUNTER stats (so I switched from their in-house to COUNTER), also
>> we have access to many databases through our consortium. Some of the
>> journals changed from P to E during those years. OverDrive books don't even
>> use COUNTER.
>> 
>> Have any of you had experience with something like this? What numbers (or
>> criteria) do you include? What measures do you consider for an overview?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance,
>> 
>> Chris
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>> H. Chris Chang, MSLIS, MA
>> Electronic Resources Supervisor
>> ILL, OER & Global Titles Librarian
>> Rolfing Memorial Library | hcchang at tiu.edu
>> Trinity International University
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