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

[Terran McCanna]

Same here, Kyle!

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:14 PM Kyle Constant <constantk at trailslibrary.org>
wrote:

> 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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