Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data
This email provoked zero responses on list. Was my timing off, is it a poorly framed question, or are people just not doing much in this realm? (By resending, I'm controlling for the timing factor...) - Tom On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Tom Cramer wrote: I'm looking for best practices for keeping and using library usage data--real life examples of libraries gathering and using things like circulation data or e-resource traffic statistics to inform service and strategy decisions while safeguarding patron privacy. I'm less interested in operational logging for security / authorization purposes, and more interested in things like gathering data to make recommendations (people who checked this out also checked this out...), collection management / licensing / deaccessioning decisions, or overall library / collection usage reporting--especially if the data are tracked and used at more than a gross level (i.e., faculty v. graduate v. undergrad usage). What usage data do you keep that may be correlated to patron identity? How do you use it? What do you do to anonymize / aggregate / cleanse / protect patron privacy? Does anyone have an approach that they regard as state of the art? Or pointers to previous work done in this space? Thanks in advance, - Tom
Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data
Harvard's Innovation Lab at their law library was working with this type of data, I believe... Try reaching out to them directly: http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/about.html Tom Blake Digital Projects Manager Boston Public Library 700 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116 617 859-2039 Free To All -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Cramer Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:27 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data This email provoked zero responses on list. Was my timing off, is it a poorly framed question, or are people just not doing much in this realm? (By resending, I'm controlling for the timing factor...) - Tom On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Tom Cramer wrote: I'm looking for best practices for keeping and using library usage data--real life examples of libraries gathering and using things like circulation data or e-resource traffic statistics to inform service and strategy decisions while safeguarding patron privacy. I'm less interested in operational logging for security / authorization purposes, and more interested in things like gathering data to make recommendations (people who checked this out also checked this out...), collection management / licensing / deaccessioning decisions, or overall library / collection usage reporting--especially if the data are tracked and used at more than a gross level (i.e., faculty v. graduate v. undergrad usage). What usage data do you keep that may be correlated to patron identity? How do you use it? What do you do to anonymize / aggregate / cleanse / protect patron privacy? Does anyone have an approach that they regard as state of the art? Or pointers to previous work done in this space? Thanks in advance, - Tom
Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data
U. Huddersfield's Library Impact Data Project also comes to mind: https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/lidp/ I know they looked at circulation data pretty extensively and did indeed make some if you're looking at X, you may be interested in Y type conjectures. Best, Eric Phetteplace Systems Librarian California College of the Arts On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Blake, Tom tbl...@bpl.org wrote: Harvard's Innovation Lab at their law library was working with this type of data, I believe... Try reaching out to them directly: http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/about.html Tom Blake Digital Projects Manager Boston Public Library 700 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116 617 859-2039 Free To All -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Cramer Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:27 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data This email provoked zero responses on list. Was my timing off, is it a poorly framed question, or are people just not doing much in this realm? (By resending, I'm controlling for the timing factor...) - Tom On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Tom Cramer wrote: I'm looking for best practices for keeping and using library usage data--real life examples of libraries gathering and using things like circulation data or e-resource traffic statistics to inform service and strategy decisions while safeguarding patron privacy. I'm less interested in operational logging for security / authorization purposes, and more interested in things like gathering data to make recommendations (people who checked this out also checked this out...), collection management / licensing / deaccessioning decisions, or overall library / collection usage reporting--especially if the data are tracked and used at more than a gross level (i.e., faculty v. graduate v. undergrad usage). What usage data do you keep that may be correlated to patron identity? How do you use it? What do you do to anonymize / aggregate / cleanse / protect patron privacy? Does anyone have an approach that they regard as state of the art? Or pointers to previous work done in this space? Thanks in advance, - Tom
