[LIBRARYDIR] Quick question about gate counts

Wed Nov 20 10:13:22 PST 2019

As our gates historically only "went off" once a day-for our courier shipment we decided that this wasn't an issue.

Interestingly enough, at the last meeting I attended as with my fellow library directors/dean in Oregon, over half those institutions had also decided to get rid of their gates.  One reason was the cost of maintaining these outweighed the cost of possible stolen items.

Jackie

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Jackie,

If you got rid of your gates, how to you catch people leaving with stuff that was not checked out or should not leave the library?

Tammy

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Hi there,

    We got new carpet and moved our collection earlier this year to enhance our open/welcoming look-getting rid of the ominous looking gates made a difference in the feel we were trying to create.  We instead analyze space usage by area to see if our redistribution  of furniture makes for nice "zoning" for our students and assess our interactions.  I don't think they're earth shattering by any means but I attached our count sheets are attached.

I'm hoping to use this data in an annual report and hopefully get us closer to discussing our impact as more transformational rather than just transactional-wistful thinking perhaps but I'm hoping to put something  meaningful together.

Jackie

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Mindy,

How exactly do you get the hourly counts?
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Yes.  I look at the ebb and flow of the gate count by hour of the day, day of the week, and the totals for quarter and year.  The ebb and flow informs how I staff the library.  The totals helps us measure usage by quarter and year over time.

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Skagit Valley College
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Hello all,

Do you take and keep gate counts of the folks coming into your library?

Why or why not?

Thanks, Leslie

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