I presented this morning (March 4, 2009) at our monthly First Wednesday library IT presentation series about Digital Collections stats from 2008 server logs (slides below):
The slides are very basic. Included are some figures extracted from previous blog posts (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/category/assessment/) as well as ‘greatest hits’–the most-accessed item from each collection.
Here’s a very well-written paper by Sebastian Chan (2008) that explores many of the issues that we discussed during the presentation:
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/chan-metrics/chan-metrics.html
Some of the key topics explored in this paper: measuring success versus counting hits, the “rather nebulous concept of ‘engagement,'” social media and the proliferation of our content beyond the context of our website.