RE: Millennium Manage Statistics: Checkouts vs. Renewals

["Seeman, Corey Glenn" <CSeeman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve -- Your assumption is correct (well, I am pretty sure).  

I too often fear those things that I assume to be straight forward and clear.  I was looking at the manual and the user manual pages for the text-based circ stats might provide more information.  The page in the users manual is # 102580.  I am not sure why, but all the reports that are in text-based are in Millennium Manage Stats except the Renewal report.  

The fixed field in the item record for TOT CHKOUT is incremented every time an item is checked out.  It is not incremented when it is renewed or the due date is changed after it is checked out (which the system considers to be a renewal).  The TOT RENEW field in incremented every time an item is renewed or the due date is changed.  If you hit your renewal limit for a transaction and you checked it in and back out to the patron, it would be considered a new checkout and the TOT CHKOUT would be incremented.  The fixed fields page of the manaul is very useful and it is found at page # 103168.

Hope this helps -- 

Corey

Corey Seeman
Assistant Dean for Resource and Systems Management
Assistant Professor, University Libraries
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University of Toledo
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-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephen McLaughlin
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 6:08 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Millennium Manage Statistics: Checkouts vs. Renewals


First, I'd like to thank all the good people who responded, on-list or
off-list, so promptly to my question about the total number of items in
the system. This useful information has been added to my store of
knowledge (which, alas, is always somehow smaller than it should be).

Now I have another question. I'm in the process of redesigning our
monthly circulation statistics, a tiresome process involving
spreadsheets and downloading numbers and so on and so on, and I want to
make sure I am not making any false assumptions before I complete the
rather elaborate and intricate process. So here's my question:

In the Millennium Manage circ activity statistics, when I get the table
of all activity, am I correct in assuming that the column headed
"Checkouts" DOES NOT INCLUDE the transactions under the heading
"Renewals"? Put another way, if I define "circulation transactions" to
include both check-outs and renewals, should I be adding the numbers in
these two columns together to get the total?

I know this is probably one of those blindingly obvious things, but I
have a deep-seated fear of making assumptions when it comes to
statistics -- I've discovered too often in the past that some reported
number did (or did not) include something that I did (or did not) expect
it to have.

In the same vein, does the number for "total checkouts" in the item
record include or exclude the renewals?

Many thanks!

Steve Mclaughlin
San Francisco Public Library
smclaughlin@xxxxxxxxxx


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