The Assessment Librarian was thinking about computer posts in his library dedicated to catalogue research only and wondered how much use these got compared to computers available for any purpose. Data collected over two weeks showed:
- Arts and Sciences branch
- Catalogue-only - 12% usage
- 'Open' computers - 51% usage
- Law and economy branch
- Catalogue-only - 7% usage
- 'Open' computers - 65% usage
Inspired by this post, Des Bibliotheques 2.0:
- shares Google Analytics statistics for off-campus visits to the library catalogue from 1st April 2008 - 1 Jan 2009 (a good handful of pages in pdf);
- compares numbers of visitors to the homepage (site) vs the number of visitors to the catalogue (OPAC) (note the numbers were gathered using different tools;
- shows the impact of a new website - " the number of visitors has increased from 80-100%; the number of visits has increased from 30-50%; the number of pages seen per visit has tripled".