2019-09-09 RPWG Meeting notes

ACRL Report Prototype

-Kevin has generated an ACRL Annual Survey Report Prototype

-4 main queries to run: volume count, title count, circulation, collection expenditures

-queries will need to vary by library, e.g., how does your library count items?

-choosing what you want to count may depend on the quality of catalog coding by area at your institution

-prototype includes all locations now, but can use effective location LDP attribute soon

-Kevin will add patron type and loan type attributes

-(Scott) Is cataloging status built in? Kevin will investigate.

-(Scott) The PO has flag for expenditure type. Kevin will investigate. (Payments will not be available until next release.)

-encumbrances include for your information, although most institutions don't report these figures in ACRL reports

-(Tod) Perhaps working on the prototypes collaboratively gives us an opportunity to have more uniform practices in reporting across libraries (as has been seen in other functional areas) 

Demonstration of how to contribute a new SQL report query--or a modification of an existing query--using the shared community space in GitHub that has been set up for this purpose.

Refer to Contributing report queries to ldp-analytics for written instructions.

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