By the Numbers

  • “Library website visits” are limited to the domain www.library.wisc.edu/ only, as reported by Google Analytics.
  • “Research guide views” include all public sessions recorded for LibGuides.
  • “Ebook chapter views” are based on COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) statistics for the UW-Madison Libraries’ largest e-book package subscriptions that support the chapter download (Book Report 2) statistics.
  • “Study rooms reserved” include only student-initiated reservations in the online reservation system.
  • “Items checked out” include data from Alma, but not other services or systems like ILL, e-books, or the equipment checkout system.
  • “Library instruction attendees” include all students, faculty and staff who attended an instruction session run by library staff.
  • “Interlibrary loan borrows” includes all books and articles requested from external sources for UW-Madison researchers from July 2016 – June 2017.
  • “Laptop loans” include all laptop circulations and renewals originating only from the equipment checkout system at library locations (Business, College, Ebling, Memorial, MERIT, Social Science, and Steenbock).
  • “Visits to library infolabs” is the total number of logins at InfoLab workstations in College, Ebling, Memorial, and Steenbock Libraries. This also includes logins on the College WisCEL workstations.
  • “Questions answered” is based on sample data gathered throughout the year from all library service points.