K-State Libraries: Conference Reports

NISO: Electronic Resource Usage Data

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Electronic Resource Usage Data: Defining a complex problem
Caryn Anderson
Doctoral Studies Program Manager
GSLIS, Simmons College

NISO: Building Frameworks of Organizational Intelligence

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

"I'm sorry, we didn't know we wanted to know that!" Building frameworks of organizational intelligence
Joe Zucca
Director for Planning and Communication
University of Pennsylvania Libraries

NISO: From Shoeboxes to Mashups

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

From Shoeboxes to Mashups: ERMs and Decision Support
Tim Jewell
Director, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication
University of Washington Libraries

Also sits on the SUSHI development committee

NISO: Searching for Value

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Searching for Value in a Changing Research Environment: What data do you have and how can you use it?
Patricia Brennan
Product Development Manager
Thompson Scientific

NISO: Real World Data

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Real World Data: Using Usage to Shape Libraries
Virginia Steel
University Librarian
University of California, Santa Cruz

NISO: Usage Statistics & Information Behaviors

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Usage Statistics & Information Behaviors
John McDonald
Assistant Director, User Services & Technology Innovation
The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges

NISO: Why Collect Data?

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Why Collect Data?
Colleen Cook
Dean of the Texas A&M University Libraries
Sterling C. Evans Chair in Librarianship

Also co-creator of LibQUAL

NISO: ScholarlyStats

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

ScholarlyStats: How it utilizes COUNTER and SUSHI standards, questions regarding effective use, and future strategic plans for the service
Tina Feck
Vice President, Customer Relations
Swets Information Services

NISO: Usage Data: an aggregator perspective

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Usage Data: An Aggregator Perspective
John Law
Director, Strategic Alliances and Platform Management
ProQuest CSA

(The conference wireless died in the middle of this post so I lost all my thoughtful analysis (ahem). This is the nutshell version posted later in the afternoon.)

NISO: SUSHI & COUNTER

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

SUSHI & COUNTER
Oliver Pesch
Chief Strategist, E-Resources
EBSCO Information Services

(Oliver was moving fast through his slides so there are lots of items I missed)

NISO: Usage Data: seeing the full perspective

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Usage Data: Seeing the Full Perspective
Kevin Cohn
Product Director, Atypon

(The conference wireless was down while Kevin was speaking. These are my notes captured off-line and posted later in the afternoon.)

NISO: The MESUR Project

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

The MESUR Project: An Update from the Trenches
Johan Bollen
Staff Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

NISO: From What to Why

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

From What to Why: Electronic Resource Usage Data in Collection Development and User Behavior
Karen Coombs
Head of Web Services
University of Houston Libraries
and
Library Web Chic

NISO: Aggregation & Analysis of Usage Data

NISO Forum: Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data

Aggregation & Analysis of Usage Data: A Structural, Quantitative Perspective
Johan Bollen
Staff Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

(Johan says he is afraid of yelling into the microphone, but it's quite difficult to hear him)

NISO at the sign of the Red Pegasus

Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data
November 1-2, 2007
Dallas, Texas

Initial Impressions:
Under the Magnolia Oil Company's red pegasus, I'm meeting with a big group of library hangers-on to discuss the pressing issues of the day. It starts to sound like a political meeting, but the topic is usage data in all its use/ful/less forms. Todd Carpenter from NISO is telling us this is the largest-attended forum this year, and the room is packed. We're meeting in a fabulous old Art Deco ballroom and it's impossible to divorce the architecture of our surroundings from the topic at hand. If we can depart with the same clear sense of structure and purpose regarding our data that the architects of these buildings possessed in their design schemes, we'll be doing very well indeed.