This website is still under development, and will be officially released during May 2019.
Please contact heidi.k.olsen@uit.no for further information.
2013
In the spring 2013 two parallell TTT studies were carried out in Vilnius and Oslo:
A first report from Vilnius will be published in October 2013.
2012
2011
Traffic studies at
2010
2009
2008
During their second-year practicum periods (five weeks), OUC library students carry out small projects in the libraries to which they are assigned. A first report on the results, mainly based on Drammen Public Library, was presented at the IFLA conference in Quebec 2008.
2004-2007
The TTT method was first tried out at Oslo Public Library (Deichmanske bibliotek) in 2004 and at Gjerdrum Public Library in 2005. Gjerdrum is a small community of five thousand inhabitants thirty kilometers north of Oslo. In addition, full scale traffic counts have been carried out by library staff in Lillehammer Public Library (25.000 inhabitants) in 2006 and in Drammensbiblioteket (60.000) in 2007 and 2008
General
In the social sciences observation is often described as a qualitative method. But systematic observation can definitely be used to collect quantitative data - as in the case of seating sweeps Its use in library studies seems to have been initiated by two Canadian researchers, Lisa Given and Gloria Leckie, who used the method to study user behavior in the Toronto Reference Library and the Vancouver Public Library in 1999. See TTT: Bibliography for details. Additional materials from TTT are available from the Norwegian version of this page. Further resources (analyses, data) based on Norwegian counts in public, academic, special and school libraries will be released.
Systematic tours of observation are used in many professional areas, like agriculture, biology and field archeology. In Norway we have tried to develop TTT as a standardized instrument to collect reliable comparative statistical data. An alternative, but closely related method, is to observe people as they enter and leave the library - see Children who “live” at the library and Observation data: getting started.