STATISTICS
Chapter 2. REPORTS
Weeding by Collection Type
Purpose: Provides the total quantity of the library's holdings displayed by collection type. The report includes the quantity of items that have not circulated within the selected period or longer and the relative percentage of total holdings. This report provides insight into the volume of items that meet the weeding criteria.
Report Parameters:
Collections – Weeding by Collection Type Screen
- Library (drop-down menu) – determines the library for which the
report will be generated; select All Libraries to generate the report
for all libraries in your system, or, select one or more
individual libraries, as desired.
- A checkmark
indicates the associated library is selected. An checkbox
indicates the associated library is not selected. Clicking a checkbox
repeatedly will toggle it on and off.
- A checkmark
- Branch (drop-down menu) – determines the branch for which the report will be generated; select All Branches to generate the report for all branches for the current Library selections, or, select one or more individual branches, as desired.
NOTE: The Branch menu lists all branches defined for the current Library selection(s).
- A checkmark
- Date Range (drop-down menu) – determines the time period for which the report will be generated; select Last Year, Last 2 Years, Last 3 Years, Last 4 Years or Last 5 Years, as desired.
To view the Collections — Weeding by Collection:
Report data is displayed as a “pie” graph, and includes a textual summary of statistics.
- The “pie” graph shows a separate “wedge” for each collection type for the Library and Location selected during report setup. Each “wedge” shows the collection name, the total number of holdings, and the percentage of holdings associated with each collection. Total Holdings, Total Weeds, and the Percentage of weeds for all collections are shown at the bottom of the graph.
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Collections – Weeding by Collection Type Graph
- The report summary provides the following information for each entry in the listing:
Collections – Weeding by Collection Type Summary
- The sequence number (#) for the Collection
- The Collection to which statistics apply
- The Total Items for the associated Collection
- The total number of items that did not circulate during the specified time frame (Weeds) for the associated Collection
- The percentage of Total Items for the associated Collection that did not circulate during the specified time frame (Weed %)
- Grand Totals are shown at the end of the summary.