...J. Gabe Gossett; Elizabeth Stephan; Rebecca Marrall Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore the process of implementing LibAnswers, a reference statistics collection and analysis software, at multiple service points in an academic library and to outline the benefits of the process...

...‐specific web pages that provide access to library resources that relate directly to class assignments. Web page usage statistics show that students are using librarian‐created course pages to access library materials. Originality/value The paper describes a way for librarians to bring library resources...

...Niels Ole Pors The statistics are very detailed and useful especially in relation to traditional services. It must be mentioned that there is a marked gap between the presentation of numbers on traditional services and digital services. Apart from input figures, it is very difficult to estimate...

... transaction logs along with a system implanted questionnaire, data were gathered, processed and analyzed using multivariate statistical analysis techniques. Findings In making a synthesis of the analyzed data, a series of questions related to everyday library work were answered, giving libraries a tool...

... strongly expounds their importance and benefits. However, it is important to bear in mind that statistics cannot be considered in isolation and that you'll need to continually question whilst you read to provide your own sense of balance. They may identify which of your electronic resources are being under...

...Niels Ole Pors Claire   Creaser , Sally   Maynard and Sonya   White . LISU Annual Library Statistics 2005: Featuring Trend Analysis of UK Public and Academic Libraries 1994‐2004 . Loughborough : Library and Information Statistics Unit   2004 . 190 pp.   £37.50 , ISBN: 1...

...Niels Ole Pors As all good statistics, this collection of numbers and comments raise interesting and pertinent questions. It is, of course, good to see that the users have a rather high satisfaction rate in relation to the public library system. The problem is that the statistics indicate...

...Niels Ole Pors It is also interesting that the people still using the public library take fewer books with home them than just a few years ago. Official statistics cannot explain this trend but it could be illuminating to have it investigated in relation to the diminishing stock of books...

...Barbara Sen Statistics Internet Business analysis Information sources Paula Berinstein is described in the foreword written by Charles Cotton as someone who has learned the “old‐fashioned” way, how to find statistics. Someone, who has 25 years of experience to share. The text...

...Niels Ole Pors Edited by Claire   Creaser . Statistics in Practice – Measuring and Managing . Loughborough : Proceedings of IFLA Satellite Conference, Loughborough, August 2002 Occasional Paper No. 32, Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU)   2003 . 190 pp. , ISBN: 1...

... is the discussion about the assumptions embedded in the single test and test procedure. The library and information science literature often includes the use of statistics. I think it is just to say that the library and information science literature to a certain degree contains too simplistic a statistical...

...Niels Ole Pors Claire   Creaser , Sally   Maynard and Sonya   White . LISU Annual Library Statistics 2002: Featuring Trend Analysis of UK Public and Academic Libraries 1991‐2001 . Loughborough: Library and Information Statistics Unit , 2002 . 208 pp. , ISBN: ISSN 0967...

...Don Revill The authors, both Belgian, have taught quantitative methods to library school students for over ten years. This text assumes no prior knowledge of statistics. It provides a strong rationale for the use of statistics in annual and other reports. Part one is “Information about...

...Don Revill Claire   Creaser , Sally   Maynard , Sonya   White . LISU Annual Library Statistics 2001, Featuring Trend Analysis of UK Public and Academic Libraries 1990‐2000 . Loughborough University : Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU)   2001 . 196pp. , ISBN...

...Thomas A. Peters E‐resource usage statistics contain a wealth of information, but mining that information from the massive amounts of data can be time consuming, expensive, and dangerous. Focuses on the practical aspects of getting some use out of usage statistics. Recent national studies...

...Yan Quan Liu Librarians have been involved in collecting and disseminating statistics for many years. Utilizing statistics to describe and assess the operation of library activities as a part of library tradition has received growing attention from researchers, policymakers, library managers...

...Don Revill Reviews the latest set of statistics on UK public, national, academic, special and school libraries. Deplores the general decline in financial support over the ten‐year period and the loss of facility represented by these reductions. Notes the consequent affect on usage figures. Suggests...

...Don Revill Anyone who has taught statistics will have his or her own pet ways of helping students to understand the concepts and make calculations correctly (one small example that might have helped here is the use of the formula (v^{–1) (h–1) in order to find degrees}...

... expensive than arts journals, as is shown in LISU’s latest list (see Table I). The bias of the university towards teaching or research will also affect its choice of journals. The Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU)’s Library and Information Statistics Table for 1998, reveals...

...Don Revill Reviews the latest LISU data, which cover all the library sectors up to 1993/1994. Concentrates on the main features, noting some incongruence in the statistics, and pointing out the problems involved in data collection generally. Overall, reveals a serious decline in quality. UK...