Connect

Tell Your Library’s Story With : 

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

Today’s Agenda: 

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

What Connect Is: 

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

What It Is Not: 

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

You Can Use It To: 

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

Telling Your Story: 

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

Bibliostat Connect: 

Bibliostat Connect Will help you Tell Your Story Educate Persuade Inform

Here’s What You Can Do: 

Here’s What You Can Do

Or…: 

Or…

Let’s Get Started: 

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

Selecting Alphabetically: 

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…

Results: 

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

Finding Peers: 

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

Results…: 

Results… Peers by population with high income removed.

Slide15: 

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%)

Results: 

Results

Tell Your Story: 

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

Make “Wow!” Comparisons: 

Make 'Wow!' Comparisons

Who Knew?: 

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

Slide20: 

Tables Allow for More Data

Slide21: 

Combining Techniques

Slide22: 

Percentiles…benchmark of high circulation libraries

Slide23: 

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

Slide24: 

Connect Graph

Slide25: 

Exported to Excel, Auto formatted and Revised

How Will You Use Connect?: 

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