Hi all,
Apologies for this ramble.
I'm currently looking in detail at usage of electronic resources and
have discovered that across the board, usage is down comparing 2010 to
2011 for example. I'm doing this so I can demonstrate to folk high up in
the university that our electronic resources are good value for money.
Not all of our resources are down, but looking at the overall picture,
it's really quite bleak. Some are massively down. I was hoping that the
results of my little exercise would show that usage is rising, but this
appears not to be the case! Therefore, the positive report I was
planning on writing is looking at little unlikely...
Has anyone else noticed a trend in usage statistics going down? If you
have, have you managed to remain positive about the use of your
electronic collections while still managing to demonstrate value for
money? We don't have any sort of resource discovery product here, if
that makes a difference (and I suspect it might).
All insights greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Best wishes,
Sarah
Sarah Taylor
Electronic Resources Librarian
The Peter Marsh Library
University of Bolton
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Bolton
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