[ILL-L] ILLIAD and Statistics Questions

[Butler, Margaret]

ILL Folks,
I am preparing a presentation about statistics for our local academic
law library interlibrary loan group, and I have a few questions about
statistics in ILLiad.  I am especially interested in the thoughts of
anybody who has looked at statistical reports using both WCRS and
ILLiad.  

My library uses World Cat Resource Sharing, and I am familiar with the
OCLC Usage Statistics, Resource Sharing reports that are available at
www.stats.oclc.org.  I haven't seen any ILLiad stats, though I have
looked at the Atlas and the OCLC pages about ILLiad.  I still can't tell
how (if) the ILLiad reports differ from the reports I am used to
reviewing.


Here are my starter questions:
*How do ILLiad libraries access statistics?

*Are these statistics any different, in terms of currentness or
information gathered, than the stats reports available to WCRS users?  

*If you use ILLiad's statistics, do you like it?  Why/not?

*Is there anything you think I should know about ILLiad stats that I
should be asking and haven't?

Please reply to me off-list; if you are interested in a summary of the
results, please also message me off-list.  I'll aggregate and share
responses, if there's interest.

Meg Butler
Reference Librarian
New York Law School
212-431-2148