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

[Rogan Hamby]

Hi Kyle,

I agree with Terran that the reporting source she recommended is a best
practice choice for reports.  To address the question of does Evergreen
delete circs - no.  However, there are quite a few ways to undercount what
is there from source selection to filters with unintended consequences and
so on.



On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 4:55 PM Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> Hi Kyle,
>
> If you use the "Combined Aged and Active Circulations" reports source then
> it should include everything.
>
>
> Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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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
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