[Web4lib] Question 16b on ARL Supplemental Statistics

[Micah Stevens]

Is this a visit as opposed to a 'hit'? They are different. Why it's 
referred to as virtual is beyond me though.
-Micah

On 01/11/2007 01:03 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote:
> 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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