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<b>Invitation to participate in reference statistics project<br><br>
</b>During 2005 members of the Reference Group used funding from a SCOPA
grant to<br>
develop and test a more efficient, web-based, comprehensive,
library-wide<br>
system called Reference Tracking for collecting data on reference
transactions.<br>
Several YUL units including RSC, Law and Social Sciences participated in
the<br>
pilot project, which was a success. Now that the pilot has ended, the
Group has<br>
decided to continue this project and to invite others to start using this
easy,<br>
online system to track reference transactions. While RSC, Law, and
SSLIS used,<br>
and continue to use, this online system to record daily reference
statistics for<br>
each member of their departments, it's also possible to use it to
collect<br>
statistics only on reference sampling days. To read the final report
submitted<br>
to SCOPA on the project and to learn more, please go to<br>
<a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/scopa/grants/oldgrant.html. " eudora="autourl">
http://www.library.yale.edu/scopa/grants/oldgrant.html. </a> Under 2005
you'll<br>
see "Reference Service Statistics Pilot."<br><br>
If you are interested in participating in this project, I will be
demonstrating<br>
the online system and answering questions on the following
dates:<br><br>
February 16th - 9am - SML 411<br>
February 22nd - 1:30pm - SML 409<br>
February 21st - 2pm - Mudd Library, SCML<br>
March 7th - 11am - SML 411<br><br>
Please let me know whether you will attend or if you're interested but
not<br>
able to make any of the available sessions.<br><br>
Thanks!<br>
Kelly<br><br>
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Kelly Barrick <br>
Coordinator, Reference and Instruction<br>
Librarian for Gay & Lesbian Studies and Women's Studies, Education
& Psychology<br>
Social Science Libraries and Information Services<br>
Yale University<br>
140 Prospect St.<br>
New Haven, CT 06511<br><br>
(p) (203)432-3309<br>
(f) (203)432-8979</body>
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