Who uses Overdrive and what do they read or listen to?
Adam Chandler and Maureen Morris
May 18, 2020
CUL Overdrive user demographics, May 2019 - May 2020
Overdrive is a popular CUL service. In the past 12 months 1,791 different Cornell library patrons utilized the Overdrive platform to checkout 7,809 ebook and audiobooks.
FIGURE 1: Overdrive users by patron group
TABLE 1: Overdrive uers by patron group and college or field of study
What were our Overdrive patrons reading and listening to in May 2020?
TABLE 2: Current items with holds
How long do patrons wait for the items they place on hold? (May 2020)
waitperitem = totalwaitdays / total_owned
| format | total_holds | total_owned | gap | loanperioddays | totalwaitdays | waitperitem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audiobook | 137 | 55 | 82 | 14 | 1148 | 20.9 |
| eBook | 378 | 117 | 261 | 21 | 5481 | 46.8 |
If we want to create models for different spend levels, should we use the same or a differnent price for eboooks and audiobooks?
Answer: Mean price is the same for both formats: $68
## # A tibble: 2 x 4
## format n mean_price std_dev
## <chr> <int> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Audiobook 49 67.8 20.5
## 2 eBook 102 67.6 24.5