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Re: Virtual Reference Service usage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharon Yang)
Thu Jul 3 20:12:38 2003

Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 09:09:12 -0400
From: Sharon Yang <yangs@RIDER.EDU>
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Hi, Anna:

Can I take a look at your virtual reference service web site if
possible? I just want to know what is virtual reference services?
Thanks.

Sharon Yang

Anna Yackle wrote:

>Below are the raw number of sessions for the Answers Unlimited service
>from July 2001 to March 2003. In April 2003, Answers Unlimited joined
>with Ready for Reference to form MyWebLibrarian.
>
>My question is, how does our usage compare to yours? Are summers slower
>for everyone?
>
>FY 2002   FY 2003
>  Jul 2001 0   Jan 2002 795
>Aug 2001 374   Feb 2002 894
>Sep 2001 486   Mar 2002 917
>Oct 2001 834   Apr 2002 1,049
>Nov 2001 1,104   May 2002 965
>Dec 2001 888   Jun 2002 379
>
>FY 2002 Total = 7,372
>   Jul 2002 398    Jan 2003 1,516
>Aug 2002 511    Feb 2003 1,954
>Sep 2002 1,084    Mar 2003 2,068
>Oct 2002 1,525    Apr 2003 3,086
>Nov 2002 1,555    May 2003 2,875
>Dec 2002 1,314    Jun 2003 765
>
>FY 2003 Total = 18,651
>
>Anna Yackle
>North Suburban Library System
>
>

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