References & tools

Print references

Denise Troll Covey's (2002) handbook titled Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources, provides valuable information about conducting transaction log analysis.

Online references

Carol Tenopir's (2003) report of eight on-going studies of digital libraries, some of which involve transaction log analysis, is available at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub120/pub120.pdf.

Online instruments, tools, guidelines, etc.

Some useful tools for transaction log analysis are available at this website created by Virginia Tech's Digital Library Research Laboratory: http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/DLLogging/

Guidelines for log file analysis are available at: http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/statsoft.html.