I decided to take a look at the stats for 2010 to reflect on the previous year. While it has been a very busy and productive year, I will admit I have not been as dedicated to this blog as I should. This year I won’t promise more posts, but I will try to post more on topics of interest to hospital librarians and topics I enjoy.
So let’s take a look at some stats for 2010. Please note these are just quick stats I gathered from work and personal life as a way to reflect on the past year. This does not take into account large complex projects (we all know how time consuming updating Docline or other databases can be), or other time consuming events. I would be curious to hear from other hospital librarians about their 2010 stats.
Work
Before I post stats for work, let me give the details of my library:
- 1 FTE (me)
- .25 volunteer (2-8 hours per week helping with scanning, picking up the mail, etc.)
- Support 3 hospitals
- 732 total beds
- Teaching facility with Family Practice Residency Program, Pharmacy Residency, and students from multiple programs & areas (nursing, pharmacy, medical, allied health, etc.)
- It has been 3 years since I started this position, and previously the library was without a librarian.
- I am on several committees, attend various meetings, and now I am the CME coordinator.
I only took a few quick stats for the library as I am still analyzing all of the statistics.
- In-house article requests (requests made by staff members for articles located in the library or borrowed through Docline):
- 4,981
- In-house research requests (requests made by staff members for simple to very complex searches):
- 297
- Presentations/Training session in-house:
- 20
- External community exhibits:
- 1
All of the items were completed before January 1, 2011. I have some search requests and article requests that were requested in 2010 but were not completed until 2011. These were not counted in the statistics above.
Information Reviewed
In the post Declaring Information Bankruptcy, I said I was going to buckle down and try to catch-up on reviewing items in my readers and information in general. So how did I do?
Personal RSS Reader:
From your 187 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,317 items, clicked 12 items,starred 1 items, shared 3 items, and emailed 4 items. Since December 4, 2008 you have read a total of 144,985 items.
After posting about declaring bankruptcy, which one person stated was information overload and not bankruptcy 
, I cleared out several subscriptions in my personal reader, unsubscribed from several feeds, and tried to reduce to the bare essentials. I was able to finally ‘catch-up’ with my personal reader, but it took drastic measures to finally reach this point.
Work RSS Reader:
As the numbers above reflect, I have focused my attention on catching up on the work rss reader. I must admit, even with diligently trying to catch-up I’m still far behind. I have approximately 6,000 items still in the reader… so I do not think I will ever catch up. I have started marking certain feeds as read and focusing on feeds that are more relevant to my patrons.
In addition to reviewing my rss readers, I also review Twitter and Facebook for library, hospital, medicine, and technology updates. I have no way of gathering stats from these two sources on the number of items I review annually. Or at least I do not know of a way to gather this information. Does anyone else?
Blog
The blog stats, well ok… I cheated on this one. The stats were emailed to me from WordPress:
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 21 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 81 posts. There were 51 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was March 9th with 51 views. The most popular post that day was Rounding: A solo medical librarian’s perspective.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, blog.novoseek.com, kraftylibrarian.com, Google Reader, and eagledawg.net.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for nikkipost@gmail.com, pubmed impact factor, medical librarian, webmd, and new iphone 2010 release.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Rounding: A solo medical librarian’s perspective February 2010
2 comments
PubMed Impact Factor June 2009
4 comments
Google Health® Information: Surprising Facts September 2009
8 comments
Health information: WebMD & the FDA? November 2009
4 comments
MEDLIB’s Round 1.7 October 2009
5 comments
Again these are quick stats I took as a way to reflect on the previous year. I am also evaluating some of the larger projects for this year (major weeding of journals and books, clearing out a journal storage room, inventorying all journals, re-purposing library space, approval of 2 new databases, and more). All of the library work could not have been completed without the help of the library volunteer and a supportive administration.
I am curious to know what were your accomplishments in 2010 (work and/or personal)? If you are a solo hospital librarian I am very curious to hear about your library stats for the year. It is always good, IMO, to sit back and reflect before getting too lost in completing the day-to-day tasks.
