new fields in order record after "tune up"

[Aline Soules <asoules at csuhayward dot edu>]

Innovative just completed a "tune up" for us and as part of the tune up, we now have two additional fields in our order record -- the country field and the volumes field.  While there are still problems with the volumes field at this point (Innovative is looking into them), we are now trying to find out the best uses for these fields.  Until now, we have never bothered with the country where the book was published (the country field) and I wonder what people are doing with this field, if anything.  Does it appear in any of your downloads?  Are you using it for in-house purposes?  Other ideas?

As for the volumes field, that is clearer because in the manual, Innovative indicates that it will help with statistical reports.  I can see that we could possibly identify the actual average price of a book for a given year by correlating our number of volumes and our total expenditure and various combinations of that for monographs, periodicals, etc., but our acquisitions coordinator says that there are other ways to get that information.  So we are curious about unique uses for this field or why this field is a better way to gather statistics previously gathered through other methods.

Any help will be gratefully received.  (And thanks, by the way, to Doris and Mieko for answers to my earlier query).

Aline 

Aline Soules, Associate University Librarian
California State University, Hayward
tel. 510-885-4596
e-mail:  asoules at csuhayward dot edu