Re: Internal Use Counts

["Eeva Stierwalt" <eeva dot stierwalt at lpl dot london dot on dot ca>]

How very curious!  I checked our Mill Stats and though one cannot use these fields (internal use, copy use and IUSE3) as cross tab fields and they don't show up as fields in "field statistics", the IUSE3 does show up as a column in the results file along with Record Count, Price, # Renewals, # Overdues, Tot Chkouts, Tot Renewals, YTDCIRC and LYRCIRC!!!  So, I wonder if they could add the other 2 statistical fields there???  The other option would be to choose IUSE3 instead of Internal Use when you are collecting the in-house use stats....  Thanks for replying!  I learned something new here!  Oh, I just had another thought!  If you have access to the character based Statistics, you can get In-house statistics there.... Kind regards, Eeva

Eeva Stierwalt
Information Systems Specialist
Automated Collection Management
London Public Library
251 Dundas St.
London, ON  Canada  N6A 6H9
t 519.661.5100 ex 5156
f 519.663.9013
e eeva dot stierwalt at lpl dot london dot on dot ca

>>> larsent at pdx dot edu 03/09/05 12:18PM >>>

This is also what we originally wanted to do.  Unfortunately, the INTL 
USE field, the field Innovative specifically set up for internal use 
counts, is not a field that Millennium Statistics will report on!  This 
strikes me as rather bizarre, particularly since the manual claims that 
field statistics reports on ALL fields.  It doesn't.  I put in a call to 
III asking them if they could do something about this.  They said there 
is no way they could add this field to Millennium Statistics for an 
individual site; however, they may add more fields in future releases.  
For now we just have to record the counts by hand.

-- 
Tom Larsen

Database Management and Catalog Librarian
Branford Price Millar Library
Portland State University
P.O. Box 1151
Portland, OR 97207-1151

phone: 503-725-8179
fax:   503-725-5799

email: larsent at pdx dot edu


Eeva Stierwalt wrote:

>Hi!  The only way I can think of to do this would be to Schedule a Query to run monthly in Millennium Statistics which would report on "field statistics" OR a cross tab.  This would give your the monthly increments to the statistic. Then, you could run one at the end of the year and get the increment for the year.  This would at least give you the count you're looking for AND allow you to have a running total at any given time of the popularity of your issues! Kind regards, Eeva
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>Eeva Stierwalt
>Information Systems Specialist
>Automated Collection Management
>London Public Library
>251 Dundas St.
>London, ON  Canada  N6A 6H9
>t 519.661.5100 ex 5156
>f 519.663.9013
>e eeva dot stierwalt at lpl dot london dot on dot ca
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>I have a question concerning the internal use count feature.  All of our
>periodicals have barcodes, and so we scan the barcodes in order to track
>the internal use, but is there a way to do that based on a certain
>length of time?  I would like to run a list and get usage statistics
>either for the month, or for the year- can this be done?  
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>Wyndham Robertson Library
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>Fax - (540) 362-6756
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>ahurst at hollins dot edu <mailto:ahurst at hollins dot edu> 
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