Olin Library Digital Sign Evaluation

The Olin Library Communications Department installed a digital sign in Olin's lobby in order to facilitate communication with users. The sign has been used to promote library events, services, and resources. Library Communications requested that Research and Assessment Unit (RAU) conduct an evaluation of the sign's effectiveness in reaching its audience and the impact of the messages it displays. RAU conducted a paper survey within the library. For two weeks, four large "ballot boxes" offering surveys to library users were placed in different locations on Olin's first floor. A total of 269 competed surveys were turned in, about 90% of which came from undergraduate and graduate students. A large number of comments were gathered. The sign is being noticed and has an impact, but changes to its physical environment and the design of messages may help make it more effective

Networked delivery of full-text electronic journals: Diverse options, shared limitations

This paper will explore some of the difficulties and limitations facing the current generation of electronic journal initiatives, as well as some potential solutions. Many of the examples will be drawn from endeavors underway at Cornell University's Mann Library, where an electronic library has been "under construction" for over a decade, and where a variety of electronic journal efforts are being conducted.published or submitted for publicatio

NetTracker User Survey

CUL is replacing NetTracker, a commercial web analytics package, with an in-house system for producing reports on the use of resources that reside on CUL-controlled servers. This survey was conducted at the request of Adam Chandler as leader of the team developing the in-house product. The primary goals of the survey were to solicit feedback from former NetTracker users to enable the in-house replacement to carry over as many of its desirable features as possible, to eliminate as many of its weaknesses and limitations as possible, and to add missing functionality. Survey subjects were chosen from a group of the heaviest former NetTracker users, as determined by web log analysis. A majority of subjects described NetTracker as a less than optimum solution to their need for web analytics, finding it to be either overkill, or not up to the level of sophistication they needed. A desire was voiced for a replacement product that provides basic hit count data for arbitrary time intervals, is fast, reliable, deployable on any CUL web site, and usable without IT staff intervention

Límites y medidas en el archivo y preservación de revistas electrónicas: un estudio del panorama

Translation into Spanish by Olga M. Arias of the survey conducted by Anne Kenney [et al.] “E-journal archiving metes and bounds: a survey of the landscape”, which summarizes a review of 12 e-journal archiving pro¬grams from the perspective of concerns expressed by directors of academic libraries in North America. It argues that current license arrangements are inadequate to protect a library’s long-term interest in electronic journals, that in¬dividual libraries cannot address the preservation needs of e-journals on their own, and that much scholarly e-literature is not covered by ar¬chiving arrangements. This study was sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

Report of the Collection Development Executive Committee Task Force on Print Collection Usage, Cornell University Library

This report begins with a discussion of the rationale for examining the use of Cornell University Library’s print monograph collections, situating the study in the context of both the budget-related changes at Cornell and broader shifts in the nature of research library collections (e.g., the shift to electronic, demand-driven acquisitions, collaborative collection development, etc.). The task force then presents several assumptions about print collections and academic research that have guided the study and enumerates several factors that have complicated the analysis of the circulation data. Data about Cornell University Library (CUL) acquisitions since 1990 is presented, showing the distribution of print monographs in the collection by subject, by language of publication, and by unit library. The task force then considers data from three types of usage reports: a cumulative tally of circulation, by publication year, of monographs in the CUL collection published 1990 to 2010; a count of the annual circulation of books acquired by CUL in 2001; and a “snapshot” of circulation on one day in April 2010

Implementation and Optimization of PowerBI to Support Financial Indicators and Processes

Táto bakalárska práca sa zameriava na zhodnotenie súčasného stavu a systému v spoločnosti a následne jeho optimalizácii a tvorbe nových funkcií na základe požiadaviek spoločnosti. Teoreticky sú vymedzené koncepty Business Intelligence, analýza stavu spoločnosti, návrh nového dátového modelu a vytvorenie funkčných interaktívnych dashboardov pre lepšiu vizualizáciu dát za pomoci integrácie Microsoft Power BI, s cieľom zlepšiť rozhodovacie procesy.This bachelor thesis focuses on evaluating the current state and system in the company and then optimizing it and creating new features based on the company's requirements. Theoretically, the concepts of Business Intelligence, analysis of the company's status, design of a new data model and creation of functional interactive dashboards for better data visualization using Microsoft Power BI integration are defined in order to improve decision making processes.

2008 Environmental Scan of Goals

This report is available only to Cornell University Library staff.This report reviews and summarizes the 2008 Cornell Strategic Plan along with the associated goals and priorities of individual Cornell schools and colleges, and analyzes their content relative to CUL's stated goals and priorities for 2007-2010. The goal is to determine if the library's goals align with and if the library's goals directly link to the colleges for what they identify as their priorities, and to identify gaps between the two. Results and analysis suggest that some modifications to the CUL goals might be useful in order to align them better with those of other academic units on campus. It is likely that more direct information gathering from college officials would evoke a clearer and more robust connection between CUL's and their goals and priorities

Implementation and Optimization of PowerBI to Support Financial Indicators and Processes

This bachelor thesis focuses on evaluating the current state and system in the company and then optimizing it and creating new features based on the company's requirements. Theoretically, the concepts of Business Intelligence, analysis of the company's status, design of a new data model and creation of functional interactive dashboards for better data visualization using Microsoft Power BI integration are defined in order to improve decision making processes