The Wise Use of Statistics in a Library-Oriented Environment

As with most businesses, libraries use statistics to justify expenses, to monitor the library’s expansion and to predict prospective developments. This article describes SQL and shell techniques for data retrieval as well as further processing of the data using the open source statistical environmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathias Weyland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Code4Lib 2009-03-01
Series:Code4Lib Journal
Online Access:http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1275