[WEB4LIB] Re: Library Web Page Use

[Jeff Burns]

What I am looking for is feedback on what areas of your site are used or visited the most. We get into interesting conversations while trying to determine what is "value added" or basic "need to know information" for our customers. We have used surveys, stats and alike,  which usually are not what some of our in-house folks would like to hear about.


Any feedback from public libraries?  

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>>> Dan Lester <dan at riverofdata.com> 12/05/01 11:57PM >>>

Wednesday, December 05, 2001, 9:40:35 PM, you wrote:

CH> Is anyone aware of a study that compares the use of academic library web pages to the use of the rest of the academic web site?  Most of the studies I've read tend to evaluate the library site
CH> use only.  What I'm interested in is how many hits do library pages get compared to academic non-library pages, perhaps broken down by department.

This could be interesting for bragging rights, but other than that,
what does it matter who gets the most?  I'd expect the library to get
more hits than departments, unless the departments' pages include
course content via Blackboard or some other similar system, or unless
the departmental sites include lots of student-owned pages.

Happy holidays,

dan

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