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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Forgive me if this is not accurate, but I thought I heard or read that we should expect usage numbers to be lower because so many publishers opened up their content in response to the pandemic and, though
our users may have taken great advantage, usage of this open content does not show up in our individual institutional usage reports.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Also, as others have said, I think the move from COUNTER 4 to COUNTER 5 also caused numbers to be lower.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christina Torbert<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 4, 2021 11:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'eril-l@lists.eril-l.org' <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] FW: E-resource Usage Drop?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We haven’t started collecting our 2020 resource usage statistics yet, but my colleague did look at the stats for usage of the library website and the discovery layer in December, and usage of those resources
was down. She said they were way down. Which was unexpected because, well, pandemic should have forced everyone to electronic, right?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am anxious about what we will find when we get to the resource usage numbers. I hope we will see a shift to ebooks and streaming video that I sense is out there. But what will the numbers show?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Gooch<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 4, 2021 10:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] E-resource Usage Drop?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">As I gather data for usage of e-resources for our ACRL survey, I’m wondering if others are seeing a drop in usage numbers? I expected usage to be the same or more but I’m seeing a dramatic
drop in our numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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