Initial Aggregate Data for University of Tulsa McFarlin Library and COVID Data, 2020-2021

These files contain the initial aggregate datasets produced by University of Tulsa McFarlin Library systems tracking daily, monthly, bi-annual, or annual interactions with library patrons. Files do not contain any identifying information about library patrons in compliance with state and federal laws regarding library patron privacy and student information privacy. These files are not the final aggregate datasets utilized for this project. Files may have irregular naming conventions, dates, formats, entry methods, missing data, averaged data, or other inconsistencies because each library system outputs data in a different manner. Aggregate and formatted versions of the data are available within the University of Tulsa McFarlin Library and COVID Data, 2020-2021 Dataverse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/McFarlinandCOVID. All files are housed in Excel spreadsheet formats and may contain multiple tabs.

本批次文件包含塔尔萨大学麦克法林图书馆（University of Tulsa McFarlin Library）系统生成的初始聚合数据集，用于追踪与图书馆读者的日度、月度、半年度或年度交互情况。为符合州级与联邦层面关于图书馆读者隐私及学生信息隐私的相关法律法规，本批次文件未包含任何图书馆读者的身份识别信息。本批次文件并非本项目所使用的最终聚合数据集。由于各图书馆系统的数据输出方式存在差异，本批次文件可能存在命名规则、日期格式、录入方式不统一，以及数据缺失、均值化处理或其他不一致问题。聚合与格式化后的数据集可在塔尔萨大学麦克法林图书馆与2020-2021年COVID数据Dataverse中获取，链接为：https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/McFarlinandCOVID。所有文件均采用Excel电子表格格式存储，且可能包含多个工作表。