As you can see from the previous slides, our usage log analysis from the summer left us with a lot of questions.  We wanted to know how the system was performing now that students, faculty and staff had returned for fall semester and no longer had access to the old system.  So we revisited the analysis using newer data, this time for nine-week period, from August 29th to October 29th, for the ENCompass tables, and an eight-week period for the Apache tables (September 4th through October 30th).  Since we found the Excel analysis to be limiting in some respects, we chose to try using the statistical software SPSS.

 SPSS allows for some of the manipulation of the data that was performed with Access queries to be done within the SPSS program and offers graphics capabilities along the lines of Excel.  It also holds the potential for better documentation of how the analysis was run.  Since one of the goals of our grant project was to develop a methodology the library could use to run future analysis on this system and possibly others, SPSS was appealing.

Here are some examples of the analysis we ran on the fall data using SPSS…