polaris-reports, record-sets, statistics
CLICK THE BLUE PATH LINK TO RUN THE REPORT: Custom > ~Tech Services > Local Circ for Record Set
The reports takes an item record set ID as input and then shows circulation information for all items in that record set. Including columns for local circ (circulation at the item’s assigned branch) versus total circulation (circ anywhere in the consortium) for the item.
Circulation stats are for the last 365 calendar days and do not include renewals.
Here at Worthington, Heather and I are gearing up to do our 2017 collection analysis and I was playing around with this report to see what kind of information it can provide. I noticed that the “local circs” field is YTD? So the previous year circs are pushed to the lifetime totals. Is there a way to get at the local circs/total circs for Previous Year too? If not, it might be helpful for staff to know they need to get this information before the circ stats are reset if they want to look back at the year’s circ data.
Secondly, I might need some help interpreting this data. For example, on my report for record set id 120048 is this item:
If you check this barcode (1328749096) in Polaris, the item was checked out @ CML whetstone on 12/04 and renewed twice since then, the last renewal was 1/15/18. The last time it was checked out at a Worthington location was 9/16. So it appears as if this report is counting the checkout at CML as a local circ for Worthington and it is counting the renewal as a checkout? Am I interpreting this wrong?
The circ data isn’t YTD but is for the last 365 days. There were also a couple of different issues with the report, both of which should be fixed. 1. Polaris apparently at some point made the check out action types more granular in the ItemRecordHistory table and the report was only looking at one action type. I’ve tweaked it to look for any actions starting with “Checked Out” which should catch any new action types added in the future. 2. The report had local and total circs flipped and this has been corrected as well.
