[Evergreen-reports] Publication year average

[Allison Midgley]

Hi Blake,

I made the attached count report template. Could you use its criteria to
get to an average?

Best,
Allison

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 11:29 AM Carol Witt via Evergreen-reports <
evergreen-reports at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> 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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