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 »
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 »
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 »
Coming up on our go-live date but I’ve been tracking the results of our stealth promotion activity. The graph below shows the number of Primo searches each day–still quite small… Read more »
Now that we’re about done with our Primo implementation, I thought it might be useful to share a few observations … It’s Ready We resolved the last of the show-stoppers… Read more »
Based on usage, here are the ten most popular e-books in our Safari Online Books collection for 2011. Each title includes [number of accesses during the year]. In total,… Read more »