LibStats

LibStats

LibStats is an open source program libraries use to record data about questions asked at service desks. You can use the reports to help with staffing decisions and collection development.

While it is not a fancy program and we do not plan to develop new features, we do have a small group of people who have been using it for years and love it. You can set up different users and libraries and you can customize the information you want to record.

PALS took the orphaned 2009 version of the code (https://code.google.com/archive/p/libstats/) and updated it to work with current versions of Linux and MySQL. We also updated to https to get rid of those pesky browser security errors.

PALS hosts LibStats for free for our MnPALS members. If you would like to start using LibStats, please put in a ticket.

There isn't a lot of documentation for LibStats. See how they use it at Century College in this 8-minute video.

Read more about this project on our website.

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