From: "Pennington, Buddy D." <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:39:30 +0000 I agree with Judy. Do what's reasonable. Don't kill yourself. On the discovery stats, I wouldn't count them since they are not COUNTER stats. I imagine one of these days they will just ask this as a separate question. Buddy Pennington University of Missouri - Kansas City On Nov 15, 2012, at 6:52 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: "Schwartz, Judy" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:06:32 +0000 > Subject: RE: Usage statistics for discovery services > > Chuck - after the first few years of spending waaaaaaaay too much time > on this survey, and then passing the responsibility to another > librarian, here's what we came up with: use your best guess for > percentages; don't spend more than 20 minutes on any question trying > to figure out its precise answer, as there is none. At that time, > Ebsco would provide a monthly report on how many logins, searches, > articles for each of its databases. We used their figures and > extrapolated by means of an equation, how many librarian hours were > spent assisting users. And, using only the EBSCOhost® figures, we > discovered that more librarian hours were required to support the > students than there were librarians available. > > From my experience, no one is going to come after you with a 2x4 if > your reported figures are not exact to the nth degree. > > Judy Schwartz > Director of Library Services > Trocaire College > http://library.trocaire.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:23:34 +0000 > > I’m in a bit of a quandary about what to do about search statistics > from Discovery services. > > I can’t find anywhere a definition that includes them, yet when I look > at some of what we are receiving from our vendors, I can’t EXCLUDE > them from the stats to determine individual database usage either. > > What is being requested.. (these originally were in the ARL supplemental stats) > > Number of successful full-text article requests (journals) > > Number of regular searches (databases) > > Number of federated searches (databases) > > When you look at the ARL supplemental definitions, it says: > > “Questions 18-20. Use of Electronic Resources. Items reported should > follow definitions as defined in the COUNTER Code of Practice > (www.projectcounter.org). In a footnote, please include the types of > resources for which you are reporting data. It is recommend that ONLY > data that follow the COUNTER definitions be reported. Any exceptions > should be documented in a footnote.” > > And when you go to the COUNTER pages, the list of “known” federated > search engines while quite lengthy does not include the discovery > services. > > Any thoughts welcome. > > Chuck > > Charles Hamaker M.L.S > Associate University Librarian Collection Development and Electronic > Resources UNC Charlotte > J. Murrey Atkins Library > [log in to unmask] | http://library.uncc.edu/