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VITA and the 2023 Annual Survey of Ontario Public Libraries To calculate each agency's traffic, the owner agency can divide the total site sessions by the number of agencies (public libraries and other organizations) who contribute to the site (e.g., four agencies in the example above). If you have not received your monthly traffic reports for 2023, or are missing some data, contact Jess at jposgate@ourdigitalworld.org and we can provide the missing reports or an annual report for 2023. PARTNERSHIPS AND INITIATIVES H1.1 CONSORTIA AND CO-OPERATIVE PURCHASING The Type of Consortia are: * Books Ministry Hints: ¢ E-books Report on any active consortia and cooperative © Databases and other downloadable initiatives that your library participates in. Include services (such as music or other digital initiatives led or administered by Ontario Library content) Service Agencies such as for e-resources, databases and Integrated Library Systems. * Computer software Select from the drop-down list to identify those categories relevant to your library and identify * Connectivity specific consortia further by name. There is also | an option to add additional consortia types and Integrated Library Systems (ILS) identify them by name. © Corporate discount programs (e.g., office supplies with an office retailer or library vendor) © Municipal and Local government services ¢ Other Choose “databases” for your VITA Digital Toolkit collection and identify the Name of Consortium as “OurDigitalWorld.” If you’re a partner organization in a multi-agency VITA platform, whether regional or thematic, you should report these database partnerships here. Do not enter the name of each partner, only enter the name of the shared site as one Consortium to which you belong. H1.6 SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS Many of our members can include significant digitization projects here, such as large runs of Ontario historical newspapers. 2024-01-08 7