Who uses Overdrive and what do they read or listen to?

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	290	101	189	14	2646	26.2
eBook	812	246	566	21	11886	48.3

Comparison of patron holds, May 14 vs. July 6 2020

If we want to create models for different spend levels, should we use the same or a different price for ebooks 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    87       70.7    19.7
## 2 eBook       216       65.4    24.9