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VITA and the 2023 Annual Survey of Ontario Public Libraries 3.2.4 NO. OF INDIVIDUAL ELECTRONIC PERIODICALS TITLES Newspaper access that your library provides can be included here. If you are the organization that digitizes the title and makes it available online, you can therefore count it as a title that you offer to your users, regardless of whether other communities are using it as well. Related titles such as the Waterloo Chronicle, the Chronicle Telegraph, and the County Chronicle should be counted as separate, for a total of three periodicals in this case. You can use Advanced Search in your VITA site to check how many publications you offer, by selecting Media Type “Publications” then scoping your results to Media Type “Newspaper.” Talk to Jess at jposgate@ourdigitalworld.org if you are uncertain about your Newspaper Publication numbers. TYPICAL WEEK DATA ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES AND WIRELESS USE G1.3.2 NUMBER OF TIMES ELECTRONIC DATABASES ARE ACCESSED BY LIBRARY USERS 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 library cannot provide this information enter zero. When you calculate this number: include vendor-provided statistics on the total use of all databases licensed by the library for use by library users; Include ... locally created databases (e.g. local newspaper indexes, local history collections or community information); count the use ofa ... other database title as one use; do not count each separate record accessed within the database; and use a typical week count for those items for which statistics are not provided by a vendor or counted automatically. 2024-01-08 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 and divide by 52. ODW sends monthly PDF reports to the “owner” agency for every site from Google Analytics. The report includes a count of sessions. Take each monthly report number and add them to get an annual figure. Once you have your annual count, divide by 52 to calculate the number of sessions in a typical week. This is the number to enter in the G1.3.2 field.