The Biblio File

Laura Cohen at Library 2.0 posted the results of studies they did on how students were accessing their library website, and the results are quite interesting. A representative teaser:

Approximately 2 million of our total of 3.7 million visits were “no referrer” visits, meaning that our URLs were typed into a browser or clicked as direct links from e-mail messages or browser bookmarks. This figure is so high that I almost wonder at its accuracy. If it’s in any way accurate, this suggests that many users have taken purposeful action to access previously-identified resources on the site.

Impossible to say how these findings would relate to similar studies at other institutions, but I do think it suggests that we might need to question some of our assumptions about how students are acessing our stuff.

End of the summer/beginning of the semester killed anything related to regular blog reading or posting, but I’m getting back into the swing of things.  Going back through old blog posts,  I found a post on LIS News that points to a list from Princeton Review of the top 20 academic libraries. Unfortunately, it doesn’t say what their criteria was, only that it was based on student rankings.