[Web4lib] Question 16b on ARL Supplemental Statistics

[Turner,Kathleen]

This makes me chuckle to remember how difficult it was (and I'm talking
recently, not 10 years ago) to convince everyone that we we could just
say "catalog" and not "online catalog" on our website.

"Online" as opposed to . . . ?

Kathleen 


Kathleen H. Turner
Web/Education Librarian
W.W. Hagerty Library
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875

Tel: 215.895.6783
Fax: 215.895.2070
khturner at drexel.edu


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:03 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Question 16b on ARL Supplemental Statistics

Ok, I sort of have a handle on the answer, but I am bemused by question
16b of the ARL Supplemental Statistics:

"Number of virtual visits to library's catalog." 

I am probably thinking too hard and should just plug in numbers as
requested and be done with it, but I am trying to understand a) as
opposed to what (is there a way to visit our catalog, other than
virtually?), b) what a "visit" is--no really, not just what they say
here or in COUNTER or NISO metrics, but what a visit really *is*, and c)
how many people think I am spending too much time worrying about this.

K.G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com
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