Institutional Knowledge

Meriam Library has announced the arrival of Multi-Search. This is an exciting new way to search the catalog as well as several online databases that we have access to like JSTOR and Academic Search. In the past students would have to search each journal database and our catalog separately. Now, everything is handled through a […]

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Word of the Week is finals schedule

The top three search queries from last week were

finals schedule
vista
library

I’m guessing that students are turning in assignments to WebCT Vista in preparation for finals and looking to study or finish group projects in the library.

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Word of the Week is finals schedule

In a post-Thanksgiving week, what could be on the minds of students more than finals?

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Word of the Week is calendar

Last week, with Thanksgiving providing an opportunity for many workers to take some extended vacation, it comes as no surprise that few searches were performed from on campus. How few? Of the 8,162 unique searches performed last week, only 1,017 of which came from on-campus. That is approximately 12.5% of […]

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Word of the Week is interest groups

Other Fun Facts

60% of the queries for interest groups came on Monday, November 12th
56% of search queries begin from the campus home page
Only 5.26% of visitors to the Chico State web site use the search

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Welcome to the refreshed edition of WotW. We’re now using a different metric to measure popular terms which will allow us to find some more interesting statistics.

Compare and Contrast

So how does the new metric compare? Well, using the older metric the Word of the Week would have been Academic Calendar. Not much of a surprise […]

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The Word of the Week is: Nursing

In a surprise come from behind victory, nursing barely edges out academic calendar by 5 queries! Talk about your photo finishes.

Stay tuned for more interesting stats next week as Word of the Week gets a little more in-depth thanks to Analytics.

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The Word of the Week is: Academic Calendar

I get the feeling I’m going to need to start digging for some more insightful statistics. This is just too easy.

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The Word of the Week is: Academic Calendar . Does four consecutive week classify as a pattern or a trend?

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For the third week in a row, the Word of the Week is: Academic Calendar

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