February 6, 2023
What is the average publication date of your collection? How many non-fiction books do you have compared to fiction books? You can find the answers without too much trouble, and use them to plan for the future of your library's offering.
These numbers may not mean a lot by themselves, but together they can help you gain an overall analysis of your collection, and are especially helpful in planning future weeding and purchasing.
The way to get cool numbers out of Alexandria is by running the Super Summary report.
In Reports, go to the Collection Analysis category.
Choose the Super Summary report, and use the Options tab to enter your fiscal year to get accurate information on new items, what was lost, discarded, and checked out during that time. Then click Run. It may take some time to complete.
In Operations Management, download the report PDF and take a look!
What is a good average age? What is a good distribution? What can you actually do with these results? Leave a comment and tell us how you find them useful!
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