FY99 HOLLIS Catalog Use |
Every year OIS produces an analysis of the use of the HOLLIS public catalog, giving counts for various kinds of activity. This is a rather complex document, requiring detailed knowledge of the system to interpret correctly. Instead of circulating the full report OIS has compiled the following summary of a few of the more interesting statistics:
29% were author searches
34% were title searches
22% were subject searches
12% were keyword searches
The remaining 3% of the searches were call numbers, ISBN searches, etc. Twenty two per cent of all searches found no match (one suspects a lot of spelling and keying errors...). Only 2% of the searches were "qualified" (by language, date, format, library, etc.).
|
Union catalog |
1,450,000 |
|
Academic Index |
16,178 |
|
Course reserves |
109,000 |
|
Library Guide |
60,000 |
|
ERIC |
4,500 |
|
Old Widener |
2,600 |
|
PsychInfo |
900 |
|
Legal Resources |
24,000 |
|
Anthropological Lit |
18,000 |
|
PAIS |
1,200 |
|
Religion Index |
4,600 |
|
RISM |
3,700 |
|
Physics Preprints |
2,000 |