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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