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VITA and the 2022 Annual Survey of Ontario Public Libraries How to make your collections count Ministry hints: Count the number of searches (or number of sessions if number of searches is not available) conducted in the online databases that are accessible at the library. If the This field is part of the Typical Week section. As per the Ministry instructions: if the library has reliable annual data, and, given that access to the database is not dependent on the library being physically open, the library can take its annual figure library cannot provide this and divide by 52. information enter zero. When you calculate this number: ODW sends monthly reports to the “owner” agency for include vendor provided every site from Google Analytics. You should receive statistics on the total use of all these reports in CSV and PDF formats. The report databases licensed by includes a count of sessions. Take each monthly report the library for use by library number and add them to get an annual figure. users; Include networked CD-*ROM Once you have your annual count, divide by 52 to databases and locally created | calculate the number of sessions in a typical week. This databases (e.g. local is the number to enter in the G1.3.2 field. newspaper indexes, local history collections or 2023-02-27 6