[Web4lib] Library statistics/assessment websites

[Amos Lakos]

Carole - at least two come to mind -

University of Pennsylvania Library's Data Farm - 
<http://metrics.library.upenn.edu/prototype/datafarm/>

and

University of Washington's site - 
<http://www.lib.washington.edu/assessment/>

There may be some more.

Amos

--On Sunday, April 23, 2006 12:20 PM -0400 Carole Pilkinton 
<Pilkinton.10 at nd.edu> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> Our library is in the early stages of planning a website which will pull
> together the various statisitical reports produced by departments that
> may be buried in department reports or spread across a variety of
> department and committee webpages, including summary collection and
> expenditure trends, etc. User surveys regarding library services and
> collections would also be good candidates for such a project.
>
> I'm aware of two such websites by university libraries--U Virginia,the
> gold standard, and also a very nice site (actually two) by U Maryland
> Libraries.
> University of Virginia
> http://www.lib.virginia.edu/mis/
> <>University of Maryland Libraries MIS Dept
> http://www.lib.umd.edu/CLMD/SERIALS/aboutjnlstats.html
> http://www.lib.umd.edu/PASD/MIS/index.html
>
> I've seen several other libraries which post LibQual survey results and
> analyses.
>
> Has your library produced a similar statistics for collections/services
> website? If so, can you share the link, or is it available only on an
> Intranet?
> Following that thought--I'm hoping you can share your thinking about
> making these statistics and reports publicly available rather than
> limiting access to the university or even the library. We are currently
> trying to decide whether there are any convincing reasons to lock down
> these statistics. Some of them are a bit sensitive since they include
> groups of expenditures, but these are often available to others through
> ARL, ACRL and other reporting organizations anyway. Of course it will be
> a policy decision by library management in the end, but they might well
> be interested in how others have thought about this.
>
> Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this--or pointing me to articles
> that may have discussed this kind of project, or other websites you may
> know about.
>
> Carole
>
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Amos Lakos
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