[Web4lib] Question 16b on ARL Supplemental Statistics

[Jim Campbell]

If you think that one's bad, try figuring out how to count e-journals the
ARL way. a) it's hard to do and b) the results don't say much about what
your users can get to. What's the meaning of a subscription in the world of
aggregations and open access?

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
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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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