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Re: Statistics: by day or researcher
Jeff, At the Bentley Library we count by the day. Researchers need to sign
in everytime they come to do research. At the end of the month we count up
the number of signatures and determine what classification of researcher
they are (i.e. student, scholar, lay, professional) from their
registration card. K-
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Karen L. Jania e-mail: kljania@umich.edu
Associate Reference Archivist, Bentley Historical Library
Phone: (734) 764-3482 Fax (734) 936-1333
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Cramer, Jeff wrote:
> I was just wondering on how people keep statistics on collection use: by
> researcher or by day? In other words, if a researcher spends a week at your
> site, is he/she counted once or five times because he/she used the
> collection on five separate days?
>
> Curious,
> Jeff Cramer
>
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> Jeffrey S. Cramer
> Curator of Collections, The Thoreau Institute
> 44 Baker Farm, Lincoln, MA 01773-3004
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> E-mail: Jeff.Cramer@walden.org
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