A Statistical Miscellany of A Special Library
A Statistical Miscellany of A Special Library
A Statistical Miscellany of A Special Library
customers: A statistical
of a special library
M S Sridhar
Head, Library & Documentation
ISRO Satellite Centre
Bangalore 560 017
E-mail: sridhar@isac.gov.in
Statistical miscellany – M S Sridhar, Head, LDD
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897 726 557 447 348 286 290
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20 0 1 44 0 145
DSG
137
40
ICG
37
260
394 MDG
2 00 0 214
137
PSG
136
35
PPEG
23
1 999 32 5
86
SMG
79
372
SRG
342
1 998 27 1 261
STG
238
166
TSG
158
1 997 2 38 7
TPD
7
40
FACILITY
39
115
2 36 INSAT
1 996 97 PRODUCED
78 ARCHIVED
IRS
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Statistical miscellany – 7 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (July 16, 2002)
1420
1500
1140
1000 800
582 493
500 285
23 72 80 80
0
members current jls area in '0 sq. ft.
docs in '00 use in'00
2002 50
ST A N D A R
N ON -
40 THEN (1982) NOW (2002)
B OOK
DS
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0. 6%
LS 30
J OU R N A L 1 . 6%
S 20 14.8
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10 5.0
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1 . 2% B OOK S 0
84. 3% B OOKS R EPOR T S JOU R N A LS ST A N D A R D S N ON - B OOK
M A T ER IA LS
Statistical miscellany – 9 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (August 16, 2002)
400
0
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2002
Statistical miscellany - 10 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (Sep. 1, ’02)
84.3% 25.7%
Statistical miscellany-11 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (Sep 16, ’02)
Percentage of time spent on print medium remained
same over the years - National Readership Survey
1995(%) 2001(%) PRINT
16.0%
2001
TV 62 72
INTERNET
RADIO 22 11 1.0%
INTERNET 0 1 RADIO
11.0%
PRINT 16 16
80 TV
70
1995(%) 72.0%
2001(%) Note: 2001 survey had 212,000
60 adult respondents; average
urban Indian spends 2 hrs a day
50
on media consumption
40
30
20
10
0
TV INTERNET
RADIO PRINT
Statistical miscellany-12 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (Oct. 1, ’02)
12
P hy & A s t r onomy 16
34 V al uei n '00(Rs . )
E l ec t r oni c s & E l E ngg 21
No.
398
Comput er Sc i enc e 75
Pr i vate no sites
21 % found
58%
chat 10
1. the ‘invisible’ or ‘deep’ web is over
500 times larger than ‘surface’ web
Internet use in India
academic • ½ hr to 2 hrs per day (av: 86.1 min.)
2. 25000 'mega sites' represent 50% 8
contents info rmatio n • 97% for e-mail purpose
3. mean size of a public site is > 130 • top of mind recall : yahoo 22%
pages general
7 hotmail 13%
4. no engine is indexing > 16% 0f info rmatio n
publicly accessible sites
5. over 8000 search engines; >800 m e-mail 38
pages ; >8 m sites
0 10 20 30 40
Statistical miscellany – 14 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (Nov. 1, ’02}
Test reports are maximum among types of internal
reports generated
INTERNAL REPORTS Internal repo rts pro duced (30 Sep. '02)
1 GR 60
2 TR 602 PROJECTS
69%
3 ST 83
SUB TOTAL 745
B. PROJECT REPORTS P r oj e c t r e p 326
T y pe of r e por t s pr oduc e d
4 RR 269 A na l y s i s r e p 254
T est r ep 772
5 TE 772
Revi ew r ep 269
6 AR 254
St a nda r ds 83
7 PR 326
T e c hni c a l r e p 602
SUB TOTAL 1621
Ge ne r a l r e p. 60
TOTAL 2366 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 1 0 0 0
Statistical miscellany – 15 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD ( Nov. 18, ’02)
Br i t i sh Li br ar y 13
Li br ar y of Congr ess 23
0 5 10 15 20 25
Statistical miscellany – 17 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (Dec16, ’02)
No
references
(15.8%)
(655 references
In 119 reports) No
references
(59.4%)
(844 references
In 96 ppers)
N OT HA V IN G R EF ER EN C ES
HA V IN G O N E O R M OR E R EF ER EN C ES
Statistical miscellany –18 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (Jan 1, ’03)
Reservations for books
OT HE R S Rank Gr./ Pr. Res./yr. Mem bers Average
ADMN, e t c . 1 DSG 518 95 5.5
LE OS
2 CIG 253 49 5.2
DDs , e t c . Over one 3 CSG 440 115 3.8
OT HE R P r .
IR S
year 4 PPEG 102 27 3.8
5 SMG 183 50 3.7
INSAT
FAC ILIT Y
6 TPD 67 19 3.5
TPD 7 SRG 442 137 3.2
T SG 8 AITG 495 188 2.6
ST G 9 STG 181 73 2.5
SR G 10 MDG 279 118 2.4
SMG 11 PSG 262 113 2.3
PPEG 12 CMG 188 88 2.1
P SG 13 ICG 174 92 1.9
MDG
14 INSAT 62 37 1.7
IC G 15 IRS 62 42 1.5
DSG 16 TSG 141 103 1.4
C SG 17 DDs 17 18 0.9
C MG
18 Facility 306 419 0.7
C IG
19 Others 108 185 0.6
AIT G
20 ADMN 93 296 0.3
0 200 400 600 21 LEOS 26 110 0.2
Total 4399 2374 1.9
Statistical miscellany –19 M S Sridhar, Head, LDD (Feb 6, ’05)
Visit to Library Homepage during August 2004
1351
39
33
41
68 43
61 206
19 19
76 25
14 57
74 22
30
101
67 54
62
148
Monthly visit to homepage & web OPAC
M ain page
2500 Web OPAC
2354
2144
2041 2040
2000
1755 1743
1694 1660 1683
1568 1550
1493
15 0 0 1382 1351
1316
1170 1204
1139 1163
1064
1001
10 0 0
800
698
500 359
0
S e p' 0 3 Oc t Nov Dec 03 J a n' 0 4 Fe b Mar A pr May I un J ul A ug- 0 4
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