August 30th, 2021
Miss Honey has an initiative to increase reading and library interaction with each grade level, but especially the 4th-grade class. How can she measure this? With checkouts, Researcher usage, and the right reports!
You can see some simple and helpful checkout numbers over time, by grade.
Miss Honey can compare the numbers month-by-month, over the years, and even with other grades to see how those 4th-graders are doing. Let's hope her efforts pay off with an upward trend!
Do you have a lot of ebooks? Ebook usage can be tracked when patrons click the access URL in Researcher. This is part of our Online Services Integration—call our Sales team at 1.800.347.6439 to learn more! |
Miss Honey can also gauge patron involvement in the library by measuring their interactions with the different areas of Researcher.
Compare the usage over the months and, eventually, the years. If students don't know they can access their own account to renew items and suspend holds, you may hold particular lessons showing them how to use Status. After that, you would expect to see the access to Status go up in the next few months.
Remind yourself to review these statistics by scheduling the reports. Then you can aggregate the relevant data in a spreadsheet, and even make yourself some graphs! |
There's a lot more you can do with your data...