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Aaron Shrimplin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees: Using a Variety of Data Sources to See the Big Picture
    Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
    Co-Authors: Susan Hurst, Andrew Revelle, Aaron Shrimplin
    Abstract:

    Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict future staffing, budgetary, and collection needs. This investigation assessed the effectiveness of using various data sources in predicting future Library Activity and needs. The authors collected data on in-person and chat reference transactions, electronic journal downloads, database queries, and catalog searches from 2009–12. By analyzing these data points, the authors hypothesized they would find correlations that might be predictive of changes in related Library services. Results indicated that the strongest correlations track Activity over the course of the academic calendar. While none of the data points examined had predictive properties, the strong correlations between the data points over the period of time studied indicated that any one of them might serve as a stand-alone ...

Susan Hurst - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees: Using a Variety of Data Sources to See the Big Picture
    Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
    Co-Authors: Susan Hurst, Andrew Revelle, Aaron Shrimplin
    Abstract:

    Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict future staffing, budgetary, and collection needs. This investigation assessed the effectiveness of using various data sources in predicting future Library Activity and needs. The authors collected data on in-person and chat reference transactions, electronic journal downloads, database queries, and catalog searches from 2009–12. By analyzing these data points, the authors hypothesized they would find correlations that might be predictive of changes in related Library services. Results indicated that the strongest correlations track Activity over the course of the academic calendar. While none of the data points examined had predictive properties, the strong correlations between the data points over the period of time studied indicated that any one of them might serve as a stand-alone ...

Douglas L. Zweizig - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The use of national public Library statistics by public Library directors
    The Library Quarterly, 2001
    Co-Authors: Yan Quan Liu, Douglas L. Zweizig
    Abstract:

    U.S. national public Library statistical programs have provided information on Library Activity for over half a century. Utilizing statistics to describe and assess the comparative operation of Library activities has become a part of Library tradition and has received growing attention in the past two decades from researchers, policy makers, Library managers, and professionals. However, studies about how statistics are used in libraries have been scant. We conducted a survey to investigate public Library directors' use of the Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data (FSCS) and the Public Library Data Service (PLDS) reports. We highlight the uses directors made of statistics and the aspects of statistics that they found particularly useful. The study's results are intended to provide Library administrators with insights into ways that Library statistics are used in the managerial process as well as to provide national statistical program administrators with information on the characteristic...

Andrew Revelle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees: Using a Variety of Data Sources to See the Big Picture
    Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
    Co-Authors: Susan Hurst, Andrew Revelle, Aaron Shrimplin
    Abstract:

    Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict future staffing, budgetary, and collection needs. This investigation assessed the effectiveness of using various data sources in predicting future Library Activity and needs. The authors collected data on in-person and chat reference transactions, electronic journal downloads, database queries, and catalog searches from 2009–12. By analyzing these data points, the authors hypothesized they would find correlations that might be predictive of changes in related Library services. Results indicated that the strongest correlations track Activity over the course of the academic calendar. While none of the data points examined had predictive properties, the strong correlations between the data points over the period of time studied indicated that any one of them might serve as a stand-alone ...

Kingsley Efe Osawaru - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Nigerian University Libraries
    Library Philosophy and Practice, 2011
    Co-Authors: Dorcas Ejemeh Krubu, Kingsley Efe Osawaru
    Abstract:

    Computing technology, communication technology, and mass storage technology are some of the areas of continuous development that reshape the way libraries access, retrieve, store, manipulate, and disseminate information to users. ICT has impacted on every sphere of academic Library Activity especially in the form of the Library collection development strategies, Library building and consortia. ICT presents an opportunity to provide value-added information services and access to a wide variety of digital based information resources to their clients. Furthermore, academic libraries are also using modern ICTs to automate their core functions, implement efficient and effective Library cooperation and resource sharing networks, implement management information systems, develop institutional repositories of digital local contents, and digital libraries: and initiate ICT based capacity building programmes for Library users. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has brought unprecedented changes and transformation to academic Library and information services, conventional LIS such as OPAC, user services, reference service, bibliographic services, current awareness services, document delivery, interLibrary loan, audio visual services, and customer relations can be provided more efficiently and effectively using ICT, as they offer convenient time, place, cost effectiveness, faster and most-up-to-date dissemination and end users involvement in the Library and information services process. The impact of ICT characterized on information services by changes in format, content and method of production, and delivery of information products. Emergence of the Internet as the largest repository of information and knowledge, changed role of Library and information science professionals from intermediary to facilitator, new tools for dissemination of information and shift from physical to virtual services environment and extinction of some conventional information services and emergence of new and innovational web based. Considering the enormous benefits that are experienced in the impact of ICT in Nigerian university libraries, the Nigerian academic libraries still experience some obstacles or hindrances in the effective and efficient use of the ICT resources in the Library.