# Web Metrics Analysis of the Presidential Digital Collections

The Manuscript Division holds the papers of twenty-three U.S. presidents. In 2020, the division completed their digitization, making all presidential papers accessible online. Rebekah Bain and Magdalene Jensen's 2021 Junior Fellows project included two parts: performing an analysis on the web metrics of the Jefferson and Grant presidential papers, and creating a LibGuide using content from the digitized presidential collections to help remote researchers in their online search. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, online accessibility has become critical in making the Manuscript Division's presidential collections available for research. This data guided Bain and Jensen's decisions on the LibGuide creation, by acknowledging and incorporating the public's searching preferences. Understanding the remote usage of these collections through a web metrics analysis is vital to continuing the division's mission of promoting access to materials that document our nation's heritage.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2021
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697562/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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