April circ stats posted, but some discrepancies exist

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The April Checkouts and Renewals, Checkouts and Renewals by Municipality, and Interlibrary Loan Lender/Borrower Statistics and Interlibrary Loan Statistics Consolidated by Library have now been posted and/or emailed to your library. 

However, because of the problems we experienced with the April statistics, there are some discrepancies in these reports and with the online Web Management Reports.

Checkouts and Renewals
Both of the Checkouts and Renewals reports reflect an accurate total number of checkouts.  Unfortunately, municipality and renewal detail for April 15th is missing, and had to be estimated.  Checkouts that could not be accurately assigned to a municipality were assigned to the municipality that checks out the most items at your library.  For example, the checkouts for Algoma on April 15th that could not be assigned to a specific municipality were all assigned to the city of Algoma.  Renewals that could not be assigned to a specific municipality were added to the municipalities that renew the most items online.  For most libraries, these estimated numbers are very small, and generally range from 2% to 5% of the total checkouts and renewals for the month. 

These are the most accurate numbers that we are able to provide, and these will match the official circ numbers we’ll provide at the end of the year for the annual report.

Interlibrary Loan Lender/Borrower
The Interlibrary Loan statistics are missing all data from April 1st through April 3rd.  We were not able to retrieve this information, so are posting the statistics as-is.  Please keep in mind that while three days are missing from the statistics, they are missing for all libraries, so the stats are still useful in comparing lender/borrower numbers and looking at lender/borrower ratios for individual libraries. 

Web Management
The Web Management Circulation reports are missing all data from April 1st through April 3rd.  (The one exception is the Hourly Circ report.  The April Hourly Circ statistics are correct for the month of April.) Because of this, data from any of these reports will not match the data from the Checkouts and Renewals reports posted on the OWLSnet statistics page. 

I apologize for the delay in producing the stats, as well as for the missing data.  While the glitch that caused this problem was outside of OWLS control, we have taken steps to increase our chances of being able to retrieve old data, in the event this problem occurs again.

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