Wrangling Library Reservation Data

August 2020 to August 2021

A dashboard with lollipop charts where the point of the lollipop changes color from yellow to red according as the length of the bar increases.

The fall of 2020 saw a host of new services added to our LibCal reservation system, including Library Takeout, library equipment, and library study spaces. To assist with decision-making around the number and type of reservations to make available, I took on a data processing and visualization project, resulting in a processing script and a series of dashboards.

Responsibilities:

  • created and gathered datasets
  • developed custom scripts to process data
  • designed, refined, and published dashboards

Project Outputs:

Presentations at Conferences, Professional Gatherings

  • Zoss, Angela M. (August 4, 2022). Wrangling Library Reservations Data. Presentation at NCSU Technology Jumpstart Program, virtual.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (February 3, 2021). Wrangling Fall 2020 Reservation Data. Presentation at Duke University Libraries – First Wednesday Series, Durham, NC.