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The other day we started talking about joining arXiv.org as a way to help support Open Access and the valuable service that arXiv offers.  As you’d expect, the question arose,… Read more »

University Libraries belongs to several cooperatives that provide our students, faculty and staff with enhanced access to materials beyond our local print and digital collections.  The big four for Mason… Read more »

A few observations based on 12 months of data from our Primo discovery system (Jan 2015 ~ Dec 2015): Sessions:  333,091 unique sessions  Roughly 2% originated outside the U.S. Users… Read more »

A few months ago we placed a 12 unit laptop self-checkout kiosk in one of our libraries.  It is certainly being used though not as much as I had originally expected…. Read more »

Starting a teach-myself-Tableau session today so I thought I’d extract some data from our ILS to keep things interesting and relevant.   Here’s a graphic showing what physical items (not… Read more »

1.4 million That’s the number of searches conducted on our Primo system between March 17, 2013 and March 17, 2014. Roughly three weeks ago, I added Google Analytics code to… Read more »

Working with historic circulation data the other day I discovered that affiliates of the Washington Research Library Consortium borrowed some 20,653 monograph titles from Mason’s libraries during FY 2012-13.  Thinking… Read more »

Last week we logged the 1,036,791th search on our Primo system. I think I’m most impressed by the nearly vertical line between the start of this semester (August 24) and… Read more »