RE: COUNTER: current status and advice to users]

["Coghill, Jeff" <COGHILLJ@ecu.edu>]

I care about statistics for books, journals, gate counts and 
other measurable statistics.  These numbers are VERY important to 
me, the library, the university.  Also, we have to report out 
stats to national organizations on a regular basis.  We report 
these numbers to our university and our college division.  If a 
company/publisher isn't interested in COUNTER, then I have to ask 
why. If a publisher isn't COUNTER compliant, then I ask when you 
plan to be.  We count electronic and non-electronic visits to our 
library.  In short, statistical accounting is VERY important to 
librarians. Jeff

Jeffrey G. Coghill, MA, MLIS, AHIP
Collection Dev. & Electronic Res. Librarian
East Carolina University
Allied Health Building
Greenville, NC  27834
coghillj@ecu.edu