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

[Kyle Constant]

Thanks for the clarifications, everyone. The filters Rogan hinted at in his
response are definitely something that still gives me pause after years of
working with the Evergreen reporter. I don't know how many times I've asked
about some aspect of the reporter only to have someone with more knowledge
say, "that field/template is not really telling you what you think it is."

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 4:04 PM Rogan Hamby <rhamby at equinoxinitiative.org>
wrote:

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