Centennial Library 2019-2020 Annual Report

VITAL RESOURCES Disruption of our normal educational model in Spring 2020 forced students and faculty to rely heavily on digital resources. Our commitment to providing digital resources positioned us well to continue supporting a student body that had to suddenly switch to remote learning. Even so, online learning highlighted the need to integrate library resources with our LMS, seek novel ways of promoting newly acquired resources, and evaluate increasing our commitment to digital resources. Despite efforts at increasing standardization, measuring digital usage continues to be an uncertain art. By some metrics, use of digital materials rose during the 2019 - 20 academic year, but other indicators showed a decline instead. The introduction of Counter 5 standards for usage measurement posed challenges for ensuring data continuity from our vendors. Unsurprisingly, usage of print materials dropped in Spring 2020, but not by as much as we expected. By the mid - point in Spring semester, many students had already checked out the materials they needed. We opted to extend all due dates to August to enable patrons to complete assignments and projects. Digital Resource Usage Growth for 2019 - 20 E - Books +17.7% All E - Journals +17.7% Full - text E - Journals - 13.6% 60.1% 55.1% % Digital Resources 53.8% 54.9%