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Normally I'm more of a text than a video kind of guy, but this is a good rant that's given me some ideas. Definitely worth a visit for others who are thinking of this stuff. The hard part with measuring impact for low use materials is having a good idea of where to look. kyle On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:19 PM, stuart yeates <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > On 18/12/12 10:20, Kyle Banerjee 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. >> > > I recently gave a seven minute rant at NDF about what statistics we aren't > collecting. The video requires silverlight, alas: > > http://webcast.gigtv.com.au/**Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/**NDF/<http://webcast.gigtv.com.au/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/NDF/>(second page, 'Lightning talks Session 2') > > Capsule summary: we claim to value user engagement. Making that claim and > then failing to attempt to measure it is unprofessional. > > cheers > stuart > -- > Stuart Yeates > Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/**library/<http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/> > >