Insights from Jisc & HESA Analytics Lab: An agile, cross-institutional approach

Purpose: The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of the Jisc and HESA Library Data Labs project and its outputs. Library Data Labs ran as a special instance of the three-month Jisc and HESA Analytics Labs... [ view full abstract ]

Purpose:

The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of the Jisc and HESA Library Data Labs project and its outputs. Library Data Labs ran as a special instance of the three-month Jisc and HESA Analytics Labs phases, which bring together cross-institutional teams to develop proof of concept data visualised dashboards. Analytics Labs normally draws from University strategic planning departments, but Library Data Labs set out to to discover whether the process could be successfully replicated for a library audience, using library data to make library-specific insights, and develop dashboards suitable for delivery via HESA’s Heidi-Plus service.

Design, methodology or approach:

The session will take the form of a presentation explaining the Library Data Labs project and its outputs.

Findings:

The session will present the outputs from the five cross-institutional library teams, and one Jisc team. An overview will be given of the ‘User Story’ approach whereby teams defined the questions to be addressed by the dashboards, and the user stories which teams defined will be described. A selection of dashboards will be presented and the next steps for the project explained.

Conclusions:

The continued success of the approach developed through the Labs projects is borne out by the feedback received from participants, the continued interest from an increasing range of applicants for future development cycles, and the growing interest in gaining access to the prototype dashboards already produced.

Originality and value:

The session offers insight into the Library Data Labs project including a summary of all the user stories developed by participants. The value of the session will be in learning about the latest library analytics developments happening in the UK, as well as learning how institutions will be able to access some of the dashboard outputs of the process.