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Englewood library board hears rising visits, staff updates and bot-inflated catalog counts
Summary
Board members heard that daily visits now average about 207 per day, staff reported full staffing and program growth but warned catalog page-view counts are inflated by bot traffic; the board scheduled a May 8 in-service closure, called for volunteers on a space-study team and introduced a new school liaison.
Members of the Englewood Library Board met to review usage, staffing and programming updates, and to hear staff concerns that library catalog page-view counts are being inflated by automated bot traffic.
A staff member reported that visitor totals are increasing and said the February-to-March daily average works out to about 207 people per day. The staff member cautioned, however, that reported catalog page views “are bots,” after consulting Marmot system staff, and that there is no precise way to separate automated from human traffic. "They said that that's a problem that they increasingly see on their servers," the staff member said, adding that bot traffic can cause pages to crash and sometimes prompts extra firewall checks for patrons.
Kirsten Hann…
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