An ACRL stastistical survey is asking for "Number of
virtual visits to the
library's catalog".
They define this as:
"Virtual visits include a user?s request of the library
web site or catalog
from outside the library building excluding the number of
pages or gratuitous
elements (images, style sheets) viewed. Exclude, if
possible, virtual visits
from within the library, from robot or spider crawls and
from page reloads."
"A visit is usually determined by a user?s IP address,
which can be
misleading due to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and
Firewalls or
Proxy Servers. Thus, this measure is actually an estimate of
the visits."
Since our Voyager catalog is not locally hosted, I don't
know if statistics
are kept by Endeavor on the numbers of hits sorted by IP
ranges.
If you know how to generate this statistic for a particular
time period,
please send me some pointers.
For other databases, I would ask the vendor for tech support
for help
in kind of situation, but Voyager support is more like that
given for
open source applications. So I'm hoping that someone here
either knows
how to get this statistic or can just tell me that it's not
something that
is tracked, and is thus unavailable.
If we were using our EZproxy server for Voyager links, I
suppose we could
generate the statistic in-house, but we don't currently
proxy the catalog.
--
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College
O'Malley Library
Riverdale, NY 10471
stacy.pober manhattan.edu
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