[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation stats

[Ben Shum]

Seems to me it depends on how your reports retrieve data from 
Evergreen.  In the circulation table, Evergreen records the library 
where the item was circulated from (the "lending branch") but you can 
also retrieve either the item's circulating library or item's volume's 
owning library (usually equivalent to the "owning branch").

So you could conceivably create a report to show circulations either 
from the circulating library or the owning library.  In our consortium, 
we write both forms of the report so that libraries can see the amount 
of circulations done at their site, but also for their items via other 
sites.

As for the renew question, it depends on how you've configured 
Evergreen.  By default, I believe OPAC renewals will use the home 
library of the patron to define where the circulation occurs.  This can 
be changed to instead use the original circulating library where the 
item began its journey.

With desk renewals (i.e. renewing using the staff client), it'll use 
apply the circulating library to be the library where the workstation is 
registered.  Someday I hope to have options here to force renewals to 
follow the originating library as well.

-- Ben


On 09/05/2012 04:51 PM, James Wagner wrote:
>
> We were wondering how Evergreen records circulation stats. If an item 
> is sent from one branch to another for a patron to sign out, does 
> Evergreen record the check out as a statistic for the lending branch 
> or the owning branch? When the item is renewed, which branch gets the 
> stat?
>
> *James Wagner*
>
> *Technical Services Co-ordinator*
>
> *Lincoln Public Library*
>
> *Vineland, Ontario*
>
> *905-563-2799 ext 216*
>
> *wagner at lincoln.library.on.ca*
>

-- 
Benjamin Shum
Open Source Software Coordinator
Bibliomation, Inc.
32 Crest Road
Middlebury, CT 06762
203-577-4070, ext. 113

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