One of my jobs is to keep track of the usage statistics for the Web Catalogue. They're gratifyingly high, a consoling thought given the work we've put into it. These days we're averaging twenty-two thousand searches per month and ten thousand online renewals. I've just noticed that we're approaching another milestone: some time towards the end of next week we should be hitting our 200,000th online renewal, which isn't bad given that it only went live in June 2005.
Good news with online reservations, too: up to the beginning of February we charged for reservations and we'd get a couple of hundred in a busy month. Since then they've been free. The past three months have averaged just under seven hundred. It looks like people are doing an online browse, selecting items that are on the shelves in the library, to be picked up when it's convenient: getting on for two-thirds of our reservations are being filled within a week.
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