What does “Item sampling in service quality assessment surveys to improve response rates and reduce respondent burden: The “LibQUAL+® Lite” randomized control trial (RCT)” [total: 910] has in common with “Power System Control with Distributed Flexible AC Transmission System Devices” [total: 940]?
They are both listed among the top two entries at the University of Illinois [...]
As a member of the collection assessment community, would you please review and send comments to me (l-lyons@northwestern.edu) in regard to this evolving website http://www.library.northwestern.edu/eraca/data_bank_info/top_level/nul_databank.html? The goal is to provide support and training for librarians who have collection development duties. Thank you for any suggestions, criticisms, etc. And thanks to Joe Zucca/Penn Library Data Farm for inspiration.
All the presentations from this NISO forum are now available on the web at: http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/usage07/agenda.html
The usage data wiki has some fun things — see Caryn Anderson’s NISO Nov 2007 conference presentation.
I thought it was quite informative! I would like to hear some first hand experiences from any of you who attended the Forum.
The most recent (January 2007) issue of College & Research Libraries has an interesting article on “Measurement of Use of Electronic Resources: Advances in Use Statistics and Innovations in Resource Functionality”. Authors Deborah D. Blecic, Joan B. Fiscella, and Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr. (all at the University of Illinois at Chicago) compare the effects of [...]
I have been busy this week with the compilation of electronic journal usage statistics for ARL. To complete Section 15 (Number of successful full-text article requests) in the Supplementary Statistics section, I am limiting myself to Counter-compliant JR1 statistics provided by the publisher. Still, I am encountering unexpected complexities. I’m interested in how other libraries [...]
Miss the May NISO webinars on Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)? They are now available for viewing at: Introduction to SUSHI Webinar and SUSHI: The Technology Unveiled.
MPS Technologies and Thomson Scientific have successfully completed the transfer of
data between their two systems, using the SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics
Harvesting Initiative, sponsored by NISO) protocol. This joint initiative came in
response to the growing demand for more in-depth usage analysis, as well as the
continuing need to ease the time consuming process of managing vendor usage
statistics.
The [...]
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