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What lies behind a statistic? The rise and fall of Trove visitor numbers

A few days before Christmas, Deb Verhoeven and I published an article in the Conversation on the latest funding crisis facing the National Library of Australia’s Trove service which included a visitor statistic: Trove boasts more than 22 million visits per year. Here we look at that number, and other usage stats, in more detail.

The library, the museum, and me

I love libraries and library buildings, from the huge New York Public Library to the British Library complete with Kings Library Tower rising up through its St Pancras site; the grand State Library of New South Wales, the venerable Bodleian… Continue Reading →

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