In the last couple of days of last week I received several inquiries about apparent discrepancies in Directors Station circulation statistics for December. Based on troubleshooting these inquiries, there were a couple of points that I would like to take a moment to clarify:
Take a moment to check which FY measure you are filtering on: Remember that if you are set to a June-July FY, the first six months will be in the calendar year preceding the financial year. (the December of a June-July FY 08 is December 07, for example) I always need to take a moment on this one- if you are just doing a monthly count, you may want to set the Jan-December FY for your report, so this isn't an issue for you.
Remember that there are different measures for filtering by LIBRARY, and they will give different results- equally valid numbers but measuring slightly different things-
STATION LIBRARY: filters the count to those transactions which occur at the specified library.
ITEM LIBRARY: transactions that are recorded with items belonging to the specified library. This includes the count for your items that your library sends out through holds which are checked out at another location.
USER LIBRARY: transactions that are recorded by users belonging to a specific library. If a user habitually uses several libraries, all of their transactions wherever they occur are recorded to this measure.
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