Thursday, September 26, 2024
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot running through December 31, 2024.
During the pilot period, all public library and system staff will have barrier-free access to a statewide data dashboard of public library data as reported in the Annual Report to the DPI. The dashboard includes select data elements from Wisconsin public library service data, spanning the years 2015-2023, and includes the ability for individual libraries to visualize their own library’s data as well as benchmark against other libraries and peer cohort averages. The dashboard is available on an unlisted WPLC website page.
Training materials, including suggestions for data use, are provided as part of the pilot and can be accessed in the dashboard toolkit.
Please encourage library staff to explore the dashboards using the toolkit as a guide.
Feedback on the dashboard pilot will be solicited later this fall.