<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tiffany and all,</div><div><br></div><div>I also use whatever metrics I can get easily from our external data-sharing partners.  Right now, that means I'm regularly reporting an estimate of download events and records downloaded from iDigBio and GBIF (the two of them don't report quite the same things, so I have to do some estimating to mash them together).  I'd previously also included VertNet, but their use metrics seem to be defunct.  I hope to be able to expand this someday to include BHL, MorphoSource, Calisphere, Internet Archive ... but I don't know yet what will be possible.  Because we do spend a good bit of effort on digitization, it's been helpful to have use metrics to report for the digital collection, alongside those for loans and use of actual physical objects that our board was already more familiar with.  </div><div><br></div><div>I have been reporting loans closed as well as new loans opened, to try to capture some sense of the whole loan life cycle in the metrics.  Plus, sometimes tracking down and closing old loans takes quite a lot of effort, and that activity wasn't otherwise clear in our reports.  </div><div><br></div><div>--Trina</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">--</div><div dir="ltr">Trina E. Roberts, Ph.D.<div>Associate VP, Collections</div><div>Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County</div><div>213-763-3330<br></div><div><a href="mailto:troberts@nhm.org" target="_blank">troberts@nhm.org</a></div><div>she, her, hers</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"enableNoauth":false,"expandedWatermarking":false,"expires":false,"sms":false,"expirationNum":1,"expirationUnit":"days","isManaged":false,"persistentProtection":false},"attachments":{},"compose-id":"50","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 8:08 AM Adrain, Tiffany S <<a href="mailto:tiffany-adrain@uiowa.edu" target="_blank">tiffany-adrain@uiowa.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>

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Hi all, As part of my strategic planning for the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository, I'm looking to expand "success" and "value" metrics to continue to advocate for support of collections. Anyone willing to share</div>



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As part of my strategic planning for the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository, I'm looking to expand "success" and "value" metrics to continue to advocate for support of collections.</div>
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Anyone willing to share your metrics here? We've traditionally used yearly metrics such as:</div>
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<div>Number of loans/loaned specimens/geographic coverage of borrowers</div>
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<div>Number of specimens donated</div>
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<div>Number of published specimen citations</div>
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<div>Number of visitor days</div>
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<div>Number of student interns supported</div>
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<div>Number of specimens/lots catalogued/digitized</div>
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<div>Number of ID and research enquiries (in-person and online)</div>
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<div>Number of outreach events attended</div>
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<div>Amount received in grant funding/financial donations</div>
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What other metrics can I include, especially relating to use and value to institutional parent?</div>
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Looking forward to your ideas - thanks! </div>
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