Plinius Data Bank (PliniusDB) is a small collection of library statistics.
A real bank …
The data bank contains spreadsheets of data derived from official statistics and from projects in library research. The purpose is reuse: making it easy for others to inspect and utilize data I have collected and processed in connection with my own work.
Countries and regions
Resources
- IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section
- Library statistics & measures. Produced by Joe Ryan. Not updated, but very comprehensive for older sources.
- Configuration of data curation infrastructure. From Lorcan Dempsey’s blog.
Plinius
- How much is much? Developing and interpreting national library visitor statistics. Paper for IFLA in Quebec 2008. PPT version.
- Count the traffic. Paper for IFLA in Quebec 2008. PPT version.
- The proper use of public money. An improved measure of productivity in public libraries based on Norwegian statistics (Word). Paper for the 7th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa, August 13-16, 2007.
- Comparing libraries. From official statistics to effective strategies. In Management, marketing and promotion of library services based on statistics, analyses and evaluation / edited by Trine Kolderup Flaten. Munchen : Saur, 2006. (= IFLA publications).
- Why do you ask? Reference statistics for library planning, Paper for IFLA Statistics section, Glasgow, 2002. – 55 p. First half published in Performance measurement and metrics, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 28-37.
Proposals
- PS 2/09. Private lives and public libraries. Proposed paper on traffic counting for Northumbria conference in Florence, August 2009
- PS 1/09. How to win friends. Proposed paper on statistical indicators for Northumbria conference in Florence, August 2009
This blog describes – and allows you to comment – on the data sets collected by Plinius.
Resources
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