Kyle,

One place to look is the dissertation research of a colleague of mine,
Derek Rodriguez:

http://www.derekrodriguez.net/understanding-library-impacts.html

His thesis is a fairly specific application of his goal, but his goal
tries to get much deeper than metrics that we typically throw around.

I find his work and tools fascinating.  The idea is that one can back,
with research, a claim that library resources and services link directly
to improved learning outcomes.  There is huge potential here.

Tim

On 12/17/12 4:20 PM, "Kyle Banerjee" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Howdy all,
>
>Just wondering who might be willing to share what kind of stats they
>produce to justify their continued existence? Of course we do the normal
>(web activity, items and metadata records created, stuff scanned, etc),
>but
>I'm trying to wrap my mind around ways to describe work where there's not
>a
>built in assumption that more is better.
>
>For example, how might work curating a collection or preparing for a
>migration to a TDB platform be described? Thanks,
>
>kyle