Base de datos estadísticos de las bibliotecas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata una experiencia cooperativa
| Main Authors: | Fushimi, Marcela-S, Pichinini, Mariana, Archuby, Gustavo, Mangiaterra, Norma |
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| Other Authors: | Heaney, Michael |
| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | es |
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K.G.Saur, 2009
, 2008
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/15175/1/Fushimi_TextoCompleto.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/15175/ |
Daftar Isi:
- In October 2001, there were formed the Interlibraries Task Forces (ITF) in the field of libraries of the UNLP with the idea of moving in various joint projects and form a network, whose face visible is Portal ROBLE (www.roble.unlp.edu.ar). Among the teams, the ITF Evaluation of Information Units, was established with the aim of developing "management indicators applicable to all libraries of the UNLP in order to measure and diagnose them, facilitating decision making and processes of continuous improvement". Within this framework, we developed a standardized statistical survey of libraries basic data, which took into account the existing international norms and standards on the issue, as well as developments implemented in various countries for the realization of university libraries statistics. Among others, were consulted developments of SCONUL (UK), REBIUN (Spain), CAUL (Australia) and ASIBU (France). The statistical form was applied to all participating libraries in the network ROBLE in 2001 and 2004, and its results were published in two separate statistical yearbooks. In both cases, the survey data was performed based on a spreadsheet that libraries completed and sent to the task force for central processing and analysis. Although the methodology reached the expected results, there were presented the following problems: manual processing of the data was extremely cumbersome and prone to human errors in typing, tailoring and subsequent publication of the Statistical Yearbooks delayed a minimum of two years of work, since there was no staff dedicated exclusively to this task, processed data were not registered in a public place or were easily accessible, so any subsequent study was difficult to implement, and, because of the excesive delay in processing, there was no time to move on comparative or more developed studies among libraries (benchmarking, second-level indicators, impact indicators, etc.). For these reasons, during 2007 funds were managed to develop a Web application that would allow us to automate the statistical survey and generate a data base with all the data of the UNLP libraries collected since 2001. While the application is still in a state of development, the first phase (data loading and viewing performance indicators) is being used in beta-test mode. Part of this work was presented at the Workshop Indicators for Assessing Libraries (Taller de Indicadores de Evaluación de Bibliotecas, http://tieb.fahce.unlp.edu.ar) held in La Plata at December 2007 with the aim of extending its application to others university libraries in Argentina. This paper describes the experience of the team UNLP in collecting standardized statistical data, analysis and processing, the WEB application designed, the problems encountered and future lines of work for the implementation of the Project “Library Statistics Database of Argentine University Libraries”.