Location
Session 8B
Start Date
22-10-2013 11:00 AM
End Date
22-10-2013 11:50 AM
Description
Ten years ago, the Georgia Tech Library created an electronic Tally Sheet to record transaction statistics. In the last decade, this system has been used by each of our public service departments and has evolved to make recording transactions easier for library staff to use. The system started as a unified single-page sheet with drop-downs to reflect multiple transactions and transaction details to sidebars individualized to each unit with single-click buttons and drop-downs.
Reporting of the transaction statistics has evolved from monthly and annual reports in Excel to a dynamic web-based interface. This data along with attendance data and circulation data has helped determine staffing and hours.
Recently, the library has developed an assessment dashboard to share library trends to both internal and external stakeholders. This project has involved data mining of information from a variety of systems including, circulation, ILL, course reserves, the library website, the library catalog, and transaction and attendance logs.
Both projects uses a combination of in-house web-design using PHP/MySQL and open-source APIs like Google Chart and PHPlot to create visual representations of library data.
This presentation will discuss our design philosophy and how other libraries can implement similar assessment tools.
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Beyond the Tally Sheet: Communicating Data
Session 8B
Ten years ago, the Georgia Tech Library created an electronic Tally Sheet to record transaction statistics. In the last decade, this system has been used by each of our public service departments and has evolved to make recording transactions easier for library staff to use. The system started as a unified single-page sheet with drop-downs to reflect multiple transactions and transaction details to sidebars individualized to each unit with single-click buttons and drop-downs.
Reporting of the transaction statistics has evolved from monthly and annual reports in Excel to a dynamic web-based interface. This data along with attendance data and circulation data has helped determine staffing and hours.
Recently, the library has developed an assessment dashboard to share library trends to both internal and external stakeholders. This project has involved data mining of information from a variety of systems including, circulation, ILL, course reserves, the library website, the library catalog, and transaction and attendance logs.
Both projects uses a combination of in-house web-design using PHP/MySQL and open-source APIs like Google Chart and PHPlot to create visual representations of library data.
This presentation will discuss our design philosophy and how other libraries can implement similar assessment tools.
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