Assessing Library Subject Guides using Google Analytics

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2013-01-28
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Durrant, Summer
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American English
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Each year librarians invest considerable time and energy in creating and maintaining web-based subject guides. But how can these guides be assessed? This poster discusses how Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library is using Google Analytics to collect and analyze website usage statistics to assess subject guides hosted on Springshare’s LibGuides platform.

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Poster presentation given on October 29, 2012 at the ARL Assessment Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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LibGuides, Assessment, Google Analytics, Subject Pathfinders
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Academic libraries -- Reference services, Web usage mining, Webometrics, Internet searching -- Statistical services, Internet users -- Statistics -- Data processing
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http://hdl.handle.net/11243/8
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