[Evergreen-reports] Publication year average

[Carol Witt]

Hi Blake,

Could you pull it from the 008 field? You'd want to use 008/07-10 (Dates:
Date 1), and 008/011-14 (Dates: Date 2) if you wanted both.

Take care,

Carol

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 11:23 AM Blake Graham-Henderson via
Evergreen-reports <evergreen-reports at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> We're wrestling with the idea of reporting the average publication year
> for a set of items on certain shelves. As we all know, the publication
> year comes out of the MARC, and includes lots of non-digit characters
> like copyright symbols, brackets, parenthesis, etc. So it would seem we
> can't use that for an average. What is everyone else doing for this? Or
> are you?
>
> --
> -Blake-
> Conducting Magic
> Will consume any data format
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Carol Witt (she/her)
Bibliographic Services Supervisor, C/W MARS, Inc.

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