J of Hospital Librarianship, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 2009 pp. 8-14
"The Impact of Loss of Access to a Point-of-Care Resource: A Case Study of the North Carolina AHEC Digital Library"
Libraries have long relied on statistics to prove value, to justify budgetary expenditiures, and to be the foundation for outcomes measurements. In September, 2007, the NC AHEC Digital Library monthly stats measured the first ever decline in both logins and linkouts when compared to the same months of the previous year.
When this trend continued through the end of 2007, the library staff undertook a statistical analysis and an environmental scan to determine why the monthly stats were dropping (as compared to the previous year). This paper discusses the results of that analysis indicating that the drop in usage stats correlated to the loss of access to Up-To-Date for the portal users.
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