[Genealib] RE: Declining use of collection

[megan lewis]

A colleague and I were talking about this yesterday.  We are finding that the 
genealogists who do come visit/send us email are asking more complicated 
questions.  Are other insitutions experiencing this?

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:32:02 -0600
>From: Jack Simpson <simpsonj at newberry.org>  
>Subject: [Genealib] RE: Declining use of collection   
>To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
>
>We've also seen a decline in genealogy researchers over the last 8 
>years, and I agree with the points Eric made explaining decline in use.
>Basically, over the past decade, many of the most-used genealogy sources 
>in our collection have been digitized- because of this, users don't need 
>to visit to use the most basic resources, such as the U.S. census.
>
>Last year, though, we saw a slight rise in genealogy researchers. We 
>started holding (and advertising) a free monthly orientation for 
>genealogy users, and I think this was responsible for the increase in 
>use. So if you don't have a regular orientation, you might try that.
>
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