I’m building an SQL database to help with assessment of library services. Today’s autodidactic activity involved counting the number of students by status (undergrad, grad or law) based on… Read more »
Seems librarians are more interested in assessment today than was the case just a few years ago. There are many reasons for the quickening of interest but I suspect most… Read more »
This graph charts the 690,000 searches conducted on our Primo system since January 1, 2013. I am happy to see that vertical jump during the final week tracked… Read more »
We placed an search widget on our library’s home page once Primo went “live”–pretty standard fare for libraries that implement a discovery product. Our search widget looks like this:… Read more »
Participated in a panel at ALA last Saturday: “Hiding in Plain Cite: The Growing Importance of Content Neutrality in Library Discovery Services” Roger Schonfeld served as moderator. Joining me on… Read more »
Eleven weeks in two things are clear: 1) use of Primo is increasing 2) researchers begin winding down a week before Spring Break and appear to need another week to… Read more »
Spent the past few days watching everyone move out of the area (due to impending construction of a new wrap-around expansion of Fenwick Library, various offices are emptying ahead of… Read more »
A short note to follow up on the Primo usage graph from a few weeks ago. This graph shows the number of searches per day from Saturday, January 12th through… Read more »
In preparation for tomorrow’s launch of inPrimo, we just added an important new service to the system: the ability to discover from within inPrimo whether any library in the WRLC holds a… Read more »
An interesting social media experiment is underway at Mason–each week a different member of the Mason community takes over the university’s official Twitter feed. This week, Mark Sample had the honor and… Read more »