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Monday, October 3, 2011

Result!

I've only updated a sampling of finding aid pages with the Google Analytics code, but I'm pleased with the results so far. People are finding our pages and not leaving them immediately and not all of those people are me (I did visit each page after I added the code so that I would be guaranteed at least one hit). I suppose that now I need to update the rest of our finding aid pages, then learn how to use custom reports so that I can actually analyze the data.

Meanwhile, I'm using MarcEdit to pull catalog records into Archivists' Toolkit from iii Millenium. The process is a little clumsy but faster and more accurate than typing. If a collection isn't in Archivists' Toolkit already, I pull the entire MARC record in to create a resource. If the collection is in AT, I just pull the name and subject headings. There's always some cleanup and sometimes some duplication, but this way, I know the catalog matches AT and that our headings are consistent. As with anything, there's probably a better way, but without a lot of tech support, this is what works for now.

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