Category Archives: Statistics

Support Your Local Library

Posted on 17 August 2012 by Rick Mason

Statestats, a recently founded non-profit focusing on education and technology, has created an infographic in support of libraries (thanks to Dan for contacting me with this!):   FIND A LIBRARY NEAR YOU FIND YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY INFORMATION INTEGRATED WITH GOOGLE … Continue reading →

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How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World

Posted on 24 July 2010 by Rick Mason

An visual chart in the current Newsweek sums up many of the changes we have seen over the past decade: Exactly How Much Are The Times A-Changin’? The categories that are in decline speak volumes: The US Postal Service is … Continue reading →

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Neutral Pleasure, Medium Arousal

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Rick Mason

In its continuing examination of library blogs, HotStuff 2.0 has added a visualization of emotional content. Here is the current visualization for Libology: How to read the information, from HotStuff’s description: The overall scatter of words in the ANEW list … Continue reading →

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Library Automation Information

Posted on 22 March 2009 by Rick Mason

It is nearly time for Marshall Breeding’s annual Automation Systems Marketplace report, published in the April 1st edition of Library Journal.  This is as comprehensive and informative a report on the software we use to organize and present our collections … Continue reading →

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Infochimps.org

Posted on 9 May 2008 by Rick Mason

Think of Infochimps.org as not only a wikipedia of data sets, but as potentially the greatest data mash-up tool yet. Imagine having loads of census, weather, sports, and other statistical data available in one big database.  Then standardize the fields … Continue reading →

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State of the ILS

Posted on 4 April 2008 by Rick Mason

Marshall Breeding provides his annual overview of the shifts and trends in the world of the Integrated Library System (ILS) in the current issue of Library Journal. Of interest is the definite movement of the open source systems, Koha and … Continue reading →

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BookLamp.org

Posted on 18 March 2008 by Rick Mason

BookLamp.org is a web 2.0 application that does something new with book recommendations. Their approach is to avoid any book selling sites and focus only on responses from readers. This provides benefits when one thinks about libraries — people often … Continue reading →

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UNdata

Posted on 6 March 2008 by Rick Mason

UNdata is a search tool for the many informational databases that the United Nations maintains. It is straightforward, easy to use, and effective in attaining what you need. If only the UN as a whole worked so well via OSDir

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Paper Use

Posted on 10 February 2008 by Rick Mason

Remember how, about 10 years ago, the concept of a “paperless office” began to seem like a weird joke? The proliferation of the desktop computer and the ascent of the internet introduced the potential of foregoing paper documents, relying instead … Continue reading →

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Visualizing the Bible

Posted on 7 February 2008 by Rick Mason

Visualizing the Bible is a project by Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie-Mellon University.  It consists of visualization of biblical references and social networking.  Check out his other projects, as well, such as his Wikipedia Top 50 and Clusterball. … Continue reading →

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Keeping Track of Stats

Posted on 15 January 2008 by Rick Mason

Does your library track reference statistics?  If the answer is “yes” (or even “possibly in the future”), then check out the READ Scale website.  Their system for categorizing and recording reference transactions via a 6 level hierarchy is both straightforward, … Continue reading →

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Libraries, Internet, and Generation Y

Posted on 30 December 2007 by Rick Mason

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a report (Pdf here) that you should read. Really. It will likely challenge assumptions that we make regarding who uses libraries and why. Here are a few of their findings as … Continue reading →

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Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices – Highlights

Posted on 29 November 2007 by Rick Mason

ResourceShelf has a list of highlights of the Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices.  The highlights are pretty interesting, and the cost of the complete survey results ($80 for a paper version and a whopping $89.50 for a downloadable pdf) … Continue reading →

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ILS usage in the ARL

Posted on 8 November 2007 by Rick Mason

Marshall Breeding has posted a chart detailing the various brands of Integrated Library Systems (ILS) software used by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Most interesting, from my own perspective, is that Voyager and Millennium are the top two systems. … Continue reading →

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American FactFinder

Posted on 17 October 2007 by Rick Mason

American FactFinder is a lookup service from the U.S. Census Bureau that will provide a decent snapshot of statistical information for a given geographical area.  Enter your zip code, city or county and there you go! found in the third … Continue reading →

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Melissa DATA

Posted on 19 June 2007 by Rick Mason

They’ve been around for a while, but I haven’t blogged about them yet, and they keep adding great features, so here is another great site for finding info related to location: Melissa DATA has links to resources that give you … Continue reading →

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Public Libraries ROI

Posted on 12 June 2007 by Rick Mason

A newly released study, Taxpayer Return-on-Investment (ROI) in Pennsylvania Public Libraries (Pdf), comes to an interesting and positive conclusion:  for every $10 of tax money invested in public libraries, the Pennsylvania taxpayers receive a return of $55. found on ResourceShelf

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ALA Library Salary Database

Posted on 7 April 2007 by Rick Mason

The Library Salary Database (press release) from the American Library Association is an online database where you can find out what people earn in various library positions at various places in the country. It seems like a good resource, but … Continue reading →

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Blue Books

Posted on 7 February 2007 by Rick Mason

Wouldn’t it be nice if there existed a web page containing links to all the Blue Books for the states? There are two: ALA’s GODORT Wiki Bradley University’s Wiki If you look under the history tab for each of the … Continue reading →

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2006 ECAR study released

Posted on 13 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2006 (3MB Pdf here), the third annual report, has been released.  These have been very informative reports, containing information on a broad range of student/IT interactions. thanks to Bill Drew for … Continue reading →

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