Making an impact: the JISC Library Impact Data Project (LIDP)

Making an impact: The JISC Library Impact Data Project (LIDP) Paul Stainthorp Electronic Resources Librarian University of Lincoln

'Activity Data' project: http://lncn.eu/cj89
8 partners:

Hypothesis
"There is a statistically significant correlation across a number of universities between library activity data and student attainment"
Do the students who use the library the most get the highest grades?

Background
Huddersfield 'non/low use' project (2005-)
Suggested link between library usage and final grade
Funding awarded for 6-month project to July 2011

Activity data examples
Circulation transactions
user A borrowed this book on 23 Jan 2011
E-Resource Usage
user B logged in and accessed ScienceDirect 126 times during 2009
Entry Stats
user C entered the library 12 times in Dec 2009
‘ Primary key’ – ID for each student in a list of graduates from a given year with school/award, degree achieved

The challenge…

… for the University of Lincoln:
We’ve got ‘form’ (MOSAIC project, 2010) http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/2164/
We rely on other depts to provide some data (graduate data: registry; e-resource usage: ICT)
Other data we control in the Library (circulation: Horizon LMS; library visits: Sentry system)
Needed help from a developer to stitch it together! Blogged at: http://lncn.eu/bek9

What does it look like? 76 2 0 76 68 75 72 23 First class honours Faculty Of Media Humanities And Technology BA (Hons) Journalism a61f697f 11 3 6 17 23 7 9 5 Upper second class honours Faculty Of Art, Architecture And Design BA (Hons) Fine Art 657a2cb5 0 0 3 7 36 2 1 16 Third class honours Faculty Of Art, Architecture And Design BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media d6e4581d

Statistical tests

“ Kruskal-Wallis test”
“ Mann-Whitney U test”
Smile and wave, boys, just smile and wave ...

Early indications
"There is a statistically significant correlation across a number of universities between library activity data and student attainment"
For circulation & e-resource usage, the correlation appears to be significant across all partner libraries
Not a cause-and-effect relationship!

What next?

Finish statistical tests on all data
Release the data under an open licence (ODCL)
Produce a toolkit to help others do the same
Significance of the result?
Taking it further

More information
LIDP project blog: http://library.hud.ac.uk/blogs/projects/lidp/
Project manager:
Graham Stone
[email_address]
Twitter @Graham_Stone
Me:
Paul Stainthorp
[email_address]
Twitter: @pstainthorp

Acknowledgements
Bryony Ramsden, Dave Pattern, Graham Stone (University of Huddersfield)
Phil Adams, Leo Appleton, Iain Baird, Polly Dawes, Regina Ferguson, Pia Krogh, Marie Letzgus, Dominic Marsh, Habby Matharoo, Kate Newell, Sarah Robbins (project partners)
Stone, G. (2011) Looking for the link between library usage and student attainment . In: CILIPS Annual Conference, 7 June 2011, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Pattern, D. (2011) If you want to get laid, go to college... In : Welsh Libraries, Archives and Museums Conference , 12 -13 May 2011, The Metropole, Llandrindod, Wales. (Unpublished)

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