Elaine Grublin has written a very interesting post about traffic this summer at the Massachusetts Historical Society. July is the busiest month of the year at the MHS (February is the slowest), but this year the number of July visitors did not meet expectations and the number of August visitors exceeded expectations. Here is a taste:
Long story short, what looked like it was shaping up to be a slow summer, was indeed just a statistically unusual summer, proving to be the busiest summer we have seen in the recent past. Perhaps the airlines and hotels were offering better fares in August this summer. We will need to look at why this happened. Yet with two business days remaining in the month, the library already surpassed the total number of researchers for the combined months of July and August for the past five years, reaching 675 total visits as of Saturday.
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