The Committee identified the following key performance indicators for measuring electronic use in terms of State wide reporting No. of workstations connected to the internet No. of Public Access Internet sessions No. of hours used No. of wireless sessions No. wireless hours used Website visits No. of fulltext journal titles No. of fulltext book titles No. fulltext video titles No. database searches No. of fulltext downloads No. digitised items No. downloads of digitised items All of the above data elements are currently included in the annual statistical survey. The committee suggested a number of strategies to improve reporting and analysis of this data- Cameron The State Library encourage greater reporting of the Morley above data sets in a letter to all NSW public library services Leanne Clearer guidelines are provided on some areas of Perry reporting. Eg consortia purchased ebook collections, who reports the ownership and circulation statistics of these collections Cameron A standard on electronic resource use is developed Morley and and included in the next edition of Living Learning Leanne Libraries. Perry While other measures such as bounce rates and average time spent on the website were considered important performance measures at a local level they were not considered useful for developing a state wide picture of electronic resources use. Leanne Leanne will circulate the link to the Beta Benchmark Perry framework 2012 7. Submissions to the PLNRC A submission from PLNSW examining the career paths of Leanne librarians in the network was received. The submission Perry will be circulated out of session for comment. 8. Other Business
The Committee identified the following key performance indicators for measuring electronic use in terms of State wide reporting No. of workstations connected to the internet No. of Public Access Internet sessions No. of hours used No. of wireless sessions No. wireless hours used Website visits No. of fulltext journal titles No. of fulltext book titles No. fulltext video titles No. database searches No. of fulltext downloads No. digitised items No. downloads of digitised items All of the above data elements are currently included in the annual statistical survey. The committee suggested a number of strategies to improve reporting and analysis of this data- The State Library encourage greater reporting of the above data sets in a letter to all NSW public library services Clearer guidelines are provided on some areas of reporting. Eg consortia purchased ebook collections, who reports the ownership and circulation statistics of these collections A standard on electronic resource use is developed and included in the next edition of Living Learning Libraries. While other measures such as bounce rates and average time spent on the website were considered important performance measures at a local level they were not considered useful for developing a state wide picture of electronic resources use. Leanne will circulate the link to the Beta Benchmark framework 2012 Cameron Morley Leanne Perry Cameron Morley and Leanne Perry Leanne Perry 7. Submissions to the PLNRC A submission from PLNSW examining the career paths of librarians in the network was received. The submission will be circulated out of session for comment. Leanne Perry 8. Other Business
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