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Information Management

Marketing + Outreach

Making It "Count": Collecting Electronic Resources Statistics in Law Libraries

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

8:30am – 9:30am CDT

Room: Regency Ballroom A (West Tower Gold Level)

Coordinator(s)

Larissa Sullivant

Head of Collection Services
The Ruth Lilly Law Library, IU Robert McKinney School of Law
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Slides (PDF)

Speaker(s)

Carol Ottolenghi

Director of Research & Library Services
Office of the Ohio Attorney General
Rick K. Ralston

Associate Director for Content Management and Assessment
Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Michelle Trovillo (she/her/hers)

Director of Information Resources
BakerHostetler
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Moderator(s)

Brian R. Huffman (he/him/his)

Electronic Services Librarian
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

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NOTE: This program will not be recorded.

When library budgets are flat or shrinking, assessing the value of e-resources becomes especially important. Usage statistics are necessary to help assess strategic planning and collection development goals, as well as to meet the ABA standards for law library collections. However, obtaining statistics for electronic resources can be difficult. At present, four types of e-resource usage statistics exist: COUNTER-compliant, vendor-defined, self-generated, or no statistics. This presentation will have three librarians describing how they use three different methods to collect statistics for electronic resources and use them to promote their libraries.

Target Audience:

Collection Development Librarians, Electronic Services Librarians, Access and Reference Services Librarians, Outreach Librarians, Technical Services Librarians, Library Directors, Vendor Partners.

This program is sponsored by the Library Systems & Resource Discovery SIS (LSRD-SIS).

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to define three methods of compiling statistics for electronic resources and identify advantages and disadvantages of each.
Participants will transform usage statistic to strengthen collection development policies, effectively promote the value of library resources, and implement training.
Participants will develop skills to cooperatively engage vendors in the process of obtaining usage statistics.