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Hello Lib-Stats list members, I am looking for any suggestions from list members on logging/reporting of non-HTML/non-PDF library resources in electronic format. Are you aware of any ways in which libraries are currently addressing issues of reporting digital usage beyond HTML or PDF versions of e-Books, journals, articles with COUNTER or other library usage reporting standards? One example would be reporting on non-HTML and non-PDF full text in an online viewer similar to Google Books. Another would be reporting on usage of digital image or video collections. I found a reference to non-textual resources in Release 3 of COUNTER Code of Practice at http://www.projectcounter.org/r3/Release3D9.pdf <http://www.projectcounter.org/r3/Release3D9.pdf>. A glossary in the document defines the following terminology – Full-content unit: Journals: full-text article; Books: Minimum requestable unit, which may be the entire book or a section thereof; Reference Works: content unit appropriate to resource (eg dictionary definitions, encyclopedia articles, biographies, etc) Non-textual resources: Non-textual material that is published in an online journal, book or other publication that is often associated with a full text article, encyclopedia entry, or other textual material. COUNTER allows four categories of non-textual resource: image, video, audio and other. COUNTER does not include further references to Full-content unit or Non-textual in the standard. How would COUNTER or other library-accepted reporting standard be used to log/report the equivalent of full-text views for other (e.g. non-textual) content types? I am aware of general web stats tools, but am looking for something more scalable and standards-oriented that can be used to normalize reporting across content types. After reading postings on this list, I realize this may be a naive dream, but thought it worth posing anyway. Thank you in advance for your time and attention! Meg Hurst University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies