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Tell Your Library’s Story With

Tell Your Library’s Story With. Instructor: Jeanne Goodrich goodrich@teleport.com Winter 2004. Today’s Agenda. What is Bibliostat Connect? Logging in and Navigation Selecting Libraries to Compare to: Alphabetically Peers Benchmarking Tables and Graphs Telling Your Story.

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Tell Your Library’s Story With

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  1. Tell Your Library’s Story With Instructor: Jeanne Goodrich goodrich@teleport.com Winter 2004

  2. Today’s Agenda • What is Bibliostat Connect? • Logging in and Navigation • Selecting Libraries to Compare to: • Alphabetically • Peers • Benchmarking • Tables and Graphs • Telling Your Story

  3. What Connect Is • Powerful web-based program • Several databases of statistics • California • Federal (FSCS) • PLA (PLDS) • Tools for analysis and presentation • Tables • Graphs

  4. What It Is Not • Bibliostat Collect – this is the program that you use to provide statistics to the state library Both products are sold by

  5. You Can Use It To • Compare your library to others • Find out where you rank in terms of key factors • Find others that are like you based on a number of factors

  6. Budget preparation and defense Grant Proposals Local accountability and responsiveness demonstration Service planning and evaluation Marketing and public relations Facilities siting and resource allocation Telling Your Story

  7. Bibliostat Connect Will help you Tell Your Story • Educate • Persuade • Inform

  8. Here’s What You Can Do

  9. Or…

  10. Let’s Get Started • Activate Microsoft Internet Explorer • This is the only browser that works • Login • Username and Password • The Setup screen • Libraries screen • Data Screen • Results Screen

  11. Selecting Alphabetically • You name the libraries, first selecting the state • You may know the libraries you want to compare to • Known exemplars • Others your jurisdiction compares to • Just curious…

  12. Results All libraries in San Mateo county, selected by naming.

  13. Finding Peers • Who are my peers? Who is like me? • Data elements • How do I stack up against them? • What if this doesn’t make sense? • The Beverly Hills effect • Slicing and Dicing

  14. Peers by population with high income removed. Results…

  15. Statistical calculation based upon a precise group of libraries • Can group by • Average (arithmetic mean: total divided by number of values) • Median (the value in the middle of a series of values) • Sum (total of all the values for that grouping) • All applied to database selected • Shown by percentiles, deciles, quartiles (i.e., top 25%)

  16. Results

  17. Tell Your Story • Grab the listeners attention • Dramatic examples or comparisons • Pick the most compelling statistics • Choose the best presentation mode • Respect the listener/viewer – don’t waste his time

  18. Make “Wow!” Comparisons

  19. Who Knew? OCLC report: Libraries: How They Stack Up www.oclc.org/index/compare/

  20. Tables Allow for More Data

  21. Combining Techniques

  22. Percentiles…benchmark of high circulation libraries

  23. Standardized…the high circulation per capita libraries are way outside the norm

  24. Connect Graph

  25. Exported to Excel, Auto formatted and Revised

  26. How Will You Use Connect? • Budgets • Service Development • Finding Best Practices • Demonstrating accountability • Demonstrating “value for the dollar” • Grant Applications The Crabby Council member

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