They also do extended and off-desk categories. Wants to know if there is a software program to analyze data. Keeps statistics for the first week of every month. They distinguish between phone and in-person questions. They also differentiate between journal and conference questions.
Questions regarding conference proceedings are the most difficult in a science library.
They use conference statistics to get conference reports in journals cataloged. Just went from daily statistics to sampling, They use representative weeks based on a study. Four two-week periods are sampled to collect statistics from the busiest, average, and least busy periods. They did a random sample. A librarian working on a PhD in sociology set up random days and is working it out through a statistical package.