Thursday, April 28, 2011

Database Usage @ OC Library for 2009-10

Gentle readers,

I've been busy preparing data for the Association of Research Libraries annual survey.  Here are the overall figures for the Oxnard College community for 2009-10:

Number of logins/sessions (in 18 resources):   27,613

Number of searches (in 18 resources):  85,145

Number of full-text articles retrieved (in 14 resources):  67,049

When a librarian is standing there in a one-off instruction session with often indifferent and distracted students, it's hard to tell whether the "library message" is getting through.  I don't know how many of these 67,000 articles they found useful...but at least I know our online resources are getting used! 

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