Bibliometry in libraries

Abstract

Traditional analysis of l demands of library users is based mainly on questionnaires. It is also practical to analyze is the COUNTER-based statistics of licenzed materials usage. Nowadays library services implicate generation of big data which is due to OPAC exploitation. Vast arrays of log files of servers of the library remote access system as well as the library website servers are even more impressive. All these data produce new channels for extraction of bibliometric information, which is additional to traditional bibliometric methods and altmetrics.