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

[Terran McCanna]

Hi Kyle,

If you use the "Combined Aged and Active Circulations" reports source then
it should include everything.


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On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 4:51 PM Kyle Constant <constantk at trailslibrary.org>
wrote:

> 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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