31. Claremont Colleges Library Looking at just library-specific dataTotal Library Expenditures Professional Staff Salaries Total Collection Volume Count Total Books & Bound Volumes Added Books added by purchase Total journals Print journals EjournalsILL returnables borrowed for you ILL nonreturnables provided to you Circulation (Student)circulation (Faculty)Reference transactions (typical week)Group Transactions Group Transactions (Total attendance)Gate count (Typical week)
33. Claremont Colleges Library What affects our student’s view of us?How much you spend.How much you have.How much you can get.How much you don’t help them.
Notas del editor
66 variables that I could use – I added two more, year of survey and US News rank in 2009. Not all variables reported for each school each year.
Here’s a great correlation, with few outliers.
Example of a two highly correlated measures, as we would expect
This one is more concerning, because each of the 11 dots starting to separate themselves in 2008-09 are different schools.
Here’s an example of tight clustering, but with some concerns
Here’s a great example of a variable we clearly didn’t understand.
Shows slower adoption of ejournals – the rank order correlation from the previous year and following year is good, but two years later, it’s poor.