STATISTICS
Chapter 2. REPORTS
Zero Circulation Purchasing by Material Type
Purpose: Provides a snapshot of the library's catalog based on the item's material type. This report is intended to provide insight into the volume of items within the library's catalog.
Report Parameters:
Collections – Zero Circulation Purchasing by Material Type Screen
- Library (drop-down menu) – determines the library for which the
report will be generated:
For Customer SuperUsers (when logged into the customer-level account for your VERSO system):
- 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 empty checkbox
indicates the associated library is not selected. Clicking a checkbox
repeatedly will toggle it on and off.
- Select All Libraries to generate the report for all libraries
in your system, or, select one or more individual libraries, as
desired. 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 from Last Month through Last 60 Months, as desired.
To view the Collections – Zero Circulation Spending report:
Report data is displayed as a “pie” graph, and includes a textual summary of statistics.
Collections – Zero Circulation Purchasing by Material Type Graph
- The “pie” graph shows a separate “wedge” for each material type where the number of items purchased during the specified time period for the selected Library and Location that have not circulated is equal to at least one percent of the total items purchased during the time period that have not circulated, and indicates the percentage of items associated with each material type. Material types where items purchased that have not circulated is less than one percent of the total items purchased during the specified time period that have not circulated are combined under the heading Other. A legend for the “pie” graph is shown at the bottom of the graph.
Collections – Zero Circulation Purchasing by Material Type Summary
- The report summary provides the following information for each entry in
the listing:
- The sequence number (#) for the Material Type
- The Material Type to which statistics apply
- The total # of Items purchased during the specified time period for the associated Material Type
- The Item $ Value for all items purchased during the specified time period for the associated Material Type
- The total number of items that did not circulate during the specified time period (# of Zero Circ) for the associated Material Type
- The total value for all items that did not circulate during the specified time period (Zero Circ $ Value) for the associated Material Type
- The percentage of the total # of Items purchased that did not circulate during the specified time period (Zero Circ %) for the associated Material Type
- Grand Totals are shown at the end of the summary.