[Wactclc-alma] Statistics Notes

[Lynn Robinson]

Thanks for your mail Kirsti,

I should have explained further in my initial mail that we are not using Acquisitions so I was using the Statistics Notes as a work-around to run a report to determine how much spent per subject/department. I think all is well as I have configured the notes and can get dollar amounts by filtering the programs.


Lynn Robinson
Acquisitions & Cataloging | Library
Bellingham Technical College
360-752-8337
www.btc.edu<http://www.btc.edu>

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Thomas, Kirsti
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2018 12:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wactclc-alma] Statistics Notes

Using the Reporting Codes in Acquisitions (that attach to POLs) is another option to consider.

I mention this because it isn't always easy to connect data from different "subject areas" in Alma Acquisitions.  If you store this information in the item record instead of the POL, it *might* be difficult to run reports that combine the acquisitions data and the statistics note.

I don't know for sure though.  You might want to try things out on a small test batch of a few (5-10) records and then create some Analytics reports using just those records.

Sometimes I really wish we had access to Alma Analytics in the sandbox.  There are a lot of times where the way things show up in Analytics makes a huge difference in how we want to and need to handle things. We've done some testing in the sandbox and thought things were good, only to discover when we got into Alma Production that we couldn't report on things in Alma Analytics the way we had hoped to, and had to completely revamp.


Kirsti S. Thomas
Library Technical Services Manager
Seattle Colleges
kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu<mailto:kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu>



From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Lynn Robinson
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 14:02
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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Statistics Notes

Hello All,

I am going to use a Statistics Note to identify which department each book was purchased for so that I can run reports to find what has been purchased per department.

I noticed that there are three Statistics Notes and I wonder what other use people might have for these notes? If you use Statistics Notes could you let me know?

Thank you,
Lynn

Lynn Robinson
Acquisitions & Cataloging | Library
Bellingham Technical College
360-752-8337
www.btc.edu<http://www.btc.edu>



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