Approximately 84% of the library's information resources budget is spent on electronic resources (licensed and owned), and the number or electronic resources accessible to students outnumbers physical resources by a factor of 7 to 1 -- 576,000+ electronic resources compared to 81,000+ print resources (not including technology like laptops). Usage difference are even more substantial -- electronic information resources were accessed almost 300,000 times last year, while there only slightly more than 3,000 checkouts of physical books and media (again, not including technology like laptops).
Metric: The number of titles held across various electronic information resource platforms, grouped by type.
Metric: Identify the usage of ebooks based on Total Item Requests (COUNTER 5). Total Item Requests are defined as "the total number of times the full text of a content item was downloaded or viewed." (Friendly Guide to Release 5 for Librarians, COUNTER, 2019).
Metric: Identify individual licensed electronic databases with at least 1,000 Total Item Requests from the Database Master Report (COUNTER 5). Total Item Requests are defined as "the total number of times the full text of a content item was downloaded or viewed." (Friendly Guide to Release 5 for Librarians, COUNTER, 2019).
And aggregate use across vendor platform: