Telling Your Library's Story With Microsoft Power BI Desktop, A step-by-step course for beginners

How effectively can you tell your library’s story? How readily accessible is information on various performance indicators that demonstrate the library’s value to its stakeholders? How quickly could you pull together statistics if your director or board chair suddenly wanted an analysis of the goals and objectives outlined in the current service plan? To put this in practical terms, consider how efficiently you would be able to generate the relevant statistics if you were asked to identify trends associated with library visitors, circulation, programming, or computer usage. If your honest reaction is something along the lines of “I can probably answer that, but it would likely take me a long time to dig into various data sources and then do the math”, you will want to familiarize yourself with all that Microsoft Power BI Desktop can do for you…and all that this step-by-step course can do to help you learn the basics of a powerful analytics tool.