<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Chris,</div><div>I don't have a particular example for you. </div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Judith</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Judith Nagata (she/her)<div>Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian</div><div>Dinand Library</div><div>College of the Holy Cross</div><div>Worcester, MA 01610</div><div>p: 508-793-2639</div><div>e: <a href="mailto:jnagata@holycross.edu" target="_blank">jnagata@holycross.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:28 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666">H. Chris Chang, MSLIS, MA</font></span><div><font color="#666666">Electronic Resources Supervisor</font></div><div><font color="#666666">ILL, OER & Global Titles Librarian</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:12.8px">Rolfing Memorial Library | <a href="mailto:hcchang@tiu.edu" target="_blank">hcchang@tiu.edu</a></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Trinity International University</span><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><img width="96" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wPQ16y5kY0-euNqlZDBacmpnjk20AfFZ1RhGMhak7EbGBWuraR9TlTJ6f8EPGwWAQDggtvpGw"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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