[Evergreen-reports] Circulation Statistics, Aged Circulations and the Reports That Love Them

[Kyle Constant]

Hello Everyone,

I'm the chair of my consortium's reports committee, but I feel like the
more I learn the more I realize I don't know about reports in Evergreen.
Bear with me.

I've been asked many times whether weeding items or patrons from your
collection in Evergreen causes a loss of accompanying circulation
statistics. I'm not sure exactly where this started, but it always seemed
to me like something that couldn't be true for any database used by so many
libraries. That would have been fixed, right? My memory of the way this was
explained to me by a support vendor was that the old circulation data (how
old depends on your configuration) remains in the database in the form of
aged (patronless) circulation. Therefore weeding your collection doesn't
rob your library of circulation stats, as it shouldn't.

Assuming my understanding is correct so far, and if not feel free to
correct me, my question is: since these are two different core sources for
creating templates (circulation vs. aged (patronless) circulation) would a
report template that was created based on the circulation core source also
include data from the aged (patronless) circulation source and vice versa?

Thanks for anyone willing to further illuminate this topic for me and my
apologies to anyone who may be on this list who has already tried. :)

-- 
Kyle Constant
Assistant Director
Trails Regional Library
432 N. Holden Street | Warrensburg, MO 64093
660-747-9177 x.7111
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