...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 C.   Creaser , S.   Maynard and S.   White . LISU Annual Library Statistics 2006: Featuring Trend Analysis of UK Public and Academic Libraries 1995‐2005 . Loughborough : LISU   October 2006 . 200 pp.   £37.50 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007...

... 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...

... Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Statistics Collections management Strategic evaluation Electronics industry According to Disraeli, there are “lies, damn lies, and statistics” and there are many current journal articles and web sites that quote, and agree with, him. So I...

...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 Most of the statistics in these sections only gives meaning by taking into account the drastic rise in the number of FTE students during the last 10 years. To a certain degree, the rises in student numbers are followed by a rise in the number of library staff. Of special interest...

...Niels Ole Pors As usual I have great expectations when I receive this statistical yearbook for reviewing. As usual, the expectations are fulfilled. It is a very good collection of library statistics. It is thought‐provoking and it contains many sound and careful analyses in the introductory...

...Barbara Sen Paula   Berinstein . Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast – at Little or No Cost . Medford, New Jersey, USA : CyberAge Books   2003 . 244 pp. , ISBN: 091096565X © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Statistics Internet Business...

...Niels Ole Pors Two papers deal with measuring electronic services. Tony Kidd writes about Electronic Journal Usage Statistics and Julia Blixrud presents the ARL EMetrics project. Kidd’s paper reports on the achievements of Project COUNTER, a current British initiative to encourage...

...Niels Ole Pors It is not an exaggeration to state that only a minority of library and information science students really yearn for a module or course in statistical analysis. This makes it very important to produce good introductory textbooks with examples to which the students can relate...

...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 Leo   Egghe and Ronald   Rousseau . Elementary Statistics for Effective Library and Information Services Management . Aslib‐IMI , 2000 . 120 pp. , ISBN: 0 85142 451 1   £24.99 Statistics Libraries Information services The authors, both Belgian...

...Don Revill This annual, invaluable and well‐known series of statistics covers public, academic, national, government and National Health Service (NHS) libraries. It can trace its history back to 1985. It gives percentage changes over the previous year, previous five years and previous ten years...

...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...

...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...

...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 Peter   Stephen and Susan   Hornby . Simple Statistics for Library and Information Professionals (2nd ed.) . London : Library Association Publishing   1997 . 229 pp. , ISBN: 1 85604 220 0   £27.50 Statistics Librarians The contents...

... of their retrospective journals. The results can be seen in a pie‐chart form in Figure 2 . © MCB UP Limited 1999 Academic libraries Collection management Measurement Serials Statistics User studies Serials librarians in academic libraries are having to reduce their spending on paper journals...

...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. Data...