Abstract Communicating library data with external stakeholders is a growing area of importance in the profession, and library websites provide an easy way of disseminating this information. Determining the types of data that will be most impactful in telling a library’s story is vital to an effective online data display. This research project reviewed the websites of 143 academic research libraries to determine if the libraries were publicly sharing general library data via a dashboard or other data display. For those libraries sharing data, information was recorded on the types of data shared, the types of data visualizations utilized, the age of the data presented, and whether multi-year trends were represented. The results showed that just under half of the academic research libraries in the study population had general library data displays on their websites. Most focused on traditional types of library data, such as collection size, reference and help desk interactions, instruction sessions, and circulation numbers for physically-held materials. Data visualizations were used infrequently.

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用数据讲述他们的故事：学术研究图书馆在其网站上分享的内容

摘要 与外部利益相关者交流图书馆数据是该行业日益重要的领域，图书馆网站提供了一种传播此类信息的简便方法。确定对讲述图书馆故事最有影响的数据类型对于有效的在线数据显示至关重要。该研究项目审查了 143 家学术研究图书馆的网站，以确定这些图书馆是否通过仪表板或其他数据显示公开共享一般图书馆数据。对于那些共享数据的图书馆，记录了共享数据类型、使用的数据可视化类型、所提供数据的年龄以及是否代表了多年趋势的信息。结果表明，在研究人群中，将近一半的学术研究图书馆在其网站上显示了一般图书馆数据。大多数关注传统类型的图书馆数据，例如馆藏规模、参考和帮助台互动、指导会议以及物理持有材料的流通数量。数据可视化很少使用。