Mobile site stats

[Aaron Tay]

Hi

How about http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/886987-403/gone_mobile_mobile_libraries_survey.html.csp
?

There is a "reported percentage of total usage coming from mobile
access" table that might be useful. The main problem is that most
libraries are not showing very high usage, mean is about 5% for both
academic and public libraries. Though we can debate what "high" means
in absolute terms?


Aaron

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Kristi Bryant <kbryant at wellstown.org> wrote:
> I wish I had data to share, but I wish you luck!  I’m trying to convince
> higher level staff of the need to create a mobile III catalog as well and
> feel your pain!
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> Best wishes!
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> Kristi Bryant
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> Reference and Technology Librarian
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> Wells Public Library
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> Wells, Maine  04090
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> 207-646-8181 ext. 205
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> e-mail:  kbryant at wellstown.org
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> web:  www.wellstown.org
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> "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back
> the right one."  Neil Gaiman
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> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Zusman, Laura
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:19 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Mobile site stats
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> Hello!
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> I’m in the situation of having to meet with our college marketing and IT
> departments to justify why it is we, the library, need our own mobile
> website. We’re planning on using LibraryAnywhere, as I’ve been on a trial
> for about a month now and think it does everything we need it to do (and at
> a reasonable price!). After I’d built the initial site, our director
> mentioned it to the head of IT, who exclaimed that they are already working
> on a college site.
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> In any case, we’re meeting with these folks next week to show what I’ve
> built with the software, and explain why the library is different from the
> rest of campus (i.e., we’re a III library who’s not going to pay for AirPAC,
> so our IT department would not be able to get into Millennium for a mobile
> site, thereby totally leaving out many of the services our patrons would
> want).
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> I’d love to be able to bring some statistics to the table at this meeting,
> to show the impact a library mobile site can have. I’ve searched for
> articles giving some concrete stats on mobile library usage, but without
> much luck. If anyone has implemented a library mobile site and has some
> stats (how many hits in a month or year or whatever, time spent on site,
> etc… Google Analytics type info) I would be thrilled to have them. It
> doesn’t have to be in detail, of course – whatever you’d be willing to
> share!
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> (And if anyone has any tips on dealing with an IT department that doesn’t
> understand, I’d welcome that, too J)
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> Thank you!
> Laura
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> Laura Zusman
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> Electronic Information Librarian
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> Rivier College
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> Regina Library
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> 603.897.8683
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> lzusman at rivier.edu
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