<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hi Melissa,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I also find that to be an interesting statement... I mean, I've definitely <i>peeked </i>at the chapter/section level usage for fun (i.e. I've put "unique_item_requests" for eBooks alongside "unique_title_requests" to see any correlation between uses), but I don't utilize that usage to make acquisition decisions. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I think Chapter usage <i>could be</i> interesting if a report would show the actual Chapter Titles because then I could see if the same exact chapter is being accessed by 100+ students (maybe for a course) or if the usage of the book is pretty widespread across different chapters. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Definitely interested in reading other perspectives on this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Erika Boardman</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">UNC Charlotte</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 9:15 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 class="msg-805927813252164837">
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BMJ customer contacts recently got an e-newsletter that included a link to this "Q&A":</div>
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It included this interesting claim: "So, instead of just counting the whole book, librarians are focusing more on how individual chapters or sections are used. This gives a much clearer picture of which parts of a book are most popular."</div>
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I am really curious to know of librarians who really do want to know this chapter-level usage, and how it could be useful to know "which parts of a book are most popular", since we thus far are not offered an option to purchase/license just parts of books.</div>
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And it just so happens that emphasizing chapter usage figures makes for much larger total usage numbers, which I can imagine a publisher would use to try to sell more books. </div>
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Call me cynical, but I would genuinely like to hear more from librarians who really do something useful with chapter level usage data.</div>
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