What Can Web Analytics Tell You About Your New Discovery Tool?

Monday, March 18, 2013 at 2:05 PM–2:50 PM CDT

Amphitheater 204

Keywords

"discovery tools" and "web analytics"

Learning Objectives

Understand what role web analytics might play in assessment of their e-resource access points

Differentiate between the types of questions that web analytics can answer vs. traditional electronic resources usage statistics

Learn about the basic metrics of web analytics tools

Develop a simple strategy for implementing web analytics at their own institutions

Abstract

Getting a discovery system implemented is one thing, but assessing it is another. Given that these tools are new and standards for them are in development, librarians at the Hesburgh Library decided to explore the use of web analytics to help measure the effectiveness of our new discovery tool, OneSearch.

2013 Conference Track

Search & Discovery