Electronic materials are relatively new formats and are in high demand due to advances in mobile and internet-based technology. There is a growing demand for Libraries to provide more materials in new and emerging technology formats, for mobile devices. This circulation measure is a count for each time an electronic material is checked out or downloaded by a customer. Increases in the measure indicate that investment in this new format is helping to satisfy the expectations of customers for this resource. Examples of these types of materials include: Ebooks, Eaudiobooks, Emusic and Evideo. The target was set based on a 2% increase over previous year.

The Polaris ILS software counts checkouts and produces reports. Deborah Duke runs the reports and provides the figures to Paul Orr.

Actual = # electronic materials checked out

LV= last year's actual

HV = LV + 2%

% change (YOY) = ((current period actual - previous year actual) / previous period actual)*100