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Data Visualization Highlighted in ARL’s Research Library Issues 288

RLI 286 coverARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 288, an issue focusing on how research libraries are using data visualization to improve their services and to communicate their value. The two articles in this issue were presented at the Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, Washington, in August 2014.

In an introduction to this issue of RLI, Martha Kyrillidou provides an overview of the two articles and briefly discusses potential future applications of data mining and visualization in research libraries.

Rachel Lewellen and Terry Plum compare two implementations of the MINES (Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services) for Libraries protocol at UMass Amherst. In the second implementation of MINES for Libraries at UMass, the library used Tableau data visualization software to analyze and report its e-resource usage data.

Jeremy Buhler, Rachel Lewellen, and Sarah Anne Murphy demonstrate how they have used Tableau to create online dashboards and interactive graphics and reports at the University of British Columbia, UMass Amherst, and The Ohio State University, respectively. The authors discuss the impact their libraries’ use of Tableau has had on their ability to interpret data and communicate with library stakeholders.

The complete table of contents with links to the articles follows:

Research Library Issues no. 288 (2016) is freely available from ARL Digital Publications.


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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 124 research libraries in the US and Canada. ARL’s mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at https://www.arl.org/.

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