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I want dinosaur metrics

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Children's Programming

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I just want to learn!

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I have many data points, and I am not sure that they are really effective.

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Annual report/report to the community

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How do we re-design our strategic planning process to be more meaningful?

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Develop new KPIs for our strategic plan

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How can i collect and report qualitative data vs. quantitative?

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How to quantify programming success

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Lots of data and lots of questions to answer, but not much knowledge on how to answer them.

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Recent role change to encompass responsibility for data collection and organization.

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Finding ways to capture impact

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I always choose the wrong metric.

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I just took over operation of a bookmobile that has been inoperative for 5 years, and I have no data to work with!

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We want to measure our community impact and return our metrics to a pre-pandemic level

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Collection development librarian looking to hone district collection evaluation metrics.

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My organization hoards data. They collect EVERYTHING just in case they MIGHT need it. I want to convince them to stop this, as it burdens the folks we're collecting the data from.

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Counting the same old stuff is resulting in the same old activities

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We are the smallest library in our consortium and struggle to define what success is for us when we're so different from the other local libraries

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To help define what makes a measurable but meaningul outcome for programs

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Strategic planning process

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We're evaluating our eResource usage to determine what's valuable to patrons and what's not. We're trying to find the metrics that matter (how to measure usage, how to know if patrons value a resource, etc.)

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What types of data do other libraries collect?

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I am new to my position and am seeking ways to think differently about my tasks

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Finding effective data for tracking staff training

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I want to use data to figure out what our community wants, versus what we think they want.

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Creating data points that make sense and are meaningful.

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Capital Campaign effort

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Helping our Leadership Team use appropriate metrics to analyze busyness, staffing, program effectiveness, etc.

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Upcoming ballot measure

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There are talks of narrowing down our measures to just 1 that will represent all that our library does.

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Systemwide youth focused services, providing content + context [quant & qual data]

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I collect public library data for the state. I want to learn more about how to communicate the importance of that data to librarians.

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Recently made major changes to program and now I'm re-evaluating the metrics we use to assess the program.

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Can I find trends in my stats? (What day/time to have programs? What kind of programs work?)

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I collect and share metrics that don't seem important.

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How do I do this with my immediate team when I'm part of a big system where I don't always have influence over the direction of the "big ship"?

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Grant funding fuel

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Just want to use the data strategically to tell a good supportive story

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Wanting to think about metrics beyond the public library basics...

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I think a lot about equity and how to measure how (or whether) it's advancing in my org.

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Is it possible to measure patron happiness for programs? Or at least program success?

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Making decisions about staffing based on meaningful data

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Research inquiry data - surfacing what matters

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I want to measure effectiveness, not just numbers

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what metrics tell the best stories to stakeholders

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Collecting data in a way that makes it usable and effective at answering the questions asked (usage, impact, etc.)

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Starting a new program and figuring out how to make it as impactful as possible

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Marketing

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Why are we only collecting attendance numbers for programming? There's got to be a better way!

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interested in demonstrating worth of library to people who question need for a libraries

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I collect data. Is it the right data? What stories can be told from the data we already collect? How can we be sure to have comparable data from many libraries. [I collect data from all public libraries in the state. I want to be able to compare state level data with other states, but also need to be able to help libraries to tell their stories.]

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membership

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How to highlight quality over quantity - how to "quantify" quality when numbers are lower than a previous year

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We are developing an interactive data dashboard - what and why to include.

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What are the best/easiest ways to actually keep track of metrics?

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I've always felt like our stats don't reflect what we really do. But I also would like to look at some general stats and come up with some answers to questions. For example, # of cardholders, # of circs and library square feet - can we use these numbers and decide "your library is too small" or something like that - look at what is happening, compare to others and make some assumptions.

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What are some good ways to begin collecting metrics from scratch (I have no data to start with)?

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Communicating value that does not seem partial or support favoritism to diverse sized library's and communities

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Metrics that convey outcomes

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Putting Outputs into better context that showcases impact of services

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Bringing other people along to understand the importance of trends and data

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Time for a new 5-year strategic plan....need metrics for measuring goals and objectives

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Collecting meaningful data specifically for summer reading program development from a community-voice/impact perspective

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Torytelling

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44 unique libraries in 11 counties that are all part of the same district region. It is hard to find common threads.

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Quantifying intangibles

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I want to learn more about the data and metrics behind library services!