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Wireless Sign Template

At Friday's AAC meeting (3/23/12), we agreed to discontinue the Wireless Policy Acceptance Page.  OWLS staff is currently working on making this change, which has turned out to be a bit complicated.  Removing the page will affect the wireless statistics, so we're working on a way to ensure that we're still able to collect these statistics. Because of this complication, it's likely that this change won't happen until the first of April.   

Because your patrons will no longer be asked to accept this policy, you may want to post your own library policy in the library. Here's a modifiable template that your library can customize and post.   

This morning (Wednesday, May 11) there was a problem with the holdshelf.  This resulted in thousands of items "falling off" of the clear holdshelf report.  Innovative installed a fix on our system, and once the Millennium client is restarted, the holdshelf should be working correctly again. 

We've created a new weekly report called Stale Holds.  It replaces the emails that Laura has been sending, and list items that are available to fill older bib and item holds.

The report will be posted on the Online Reports page, but Patty will send out an email when it's updated.  If you have questions about these holds, please call Laura or Gerri at the OWLS office.

Thanks!

-Gerri

The SAM statistics were posted today.  We had a small problem with the SAM database, but the problem has now been resolved. 

Ecommerce disbursements for August and September were sent out on Friday.  (The August disbursement wasn't finalized until after the September board meeting.) 

The amounts have been posted on the OWLSnet statistics page under Ecommerce.  Both the August and September numbers have been posted.  In addition, there is a link to the left of the title to the YTD Disbursement.  This lists all of the funds collected for your library so far this year, and what funds have been disbursed.






















All of the Ecommerce reports require the Extranet username and password.  Please contact the OWLS office if you need assistance logging in. 

The September 2010 Monthly/YTD Circs and Renewals Report and the Checkouts and Renewals by Municipality Report have two significant changes.

First, renewals are now assigned to the original checkout agency, rather than the patron home agency.  This change was made to our system in the middle of September. According to the state annual report, renewals should be counted as circulations for the original checkout agency, and our reports will now match this definition.  We’ve looked at the data, and don’t believe this change will result in a significant change in circulation numbers for any OWLSnet library. 

Second, the renewals section now lists all renewals, both online and staff-initiated.  Previously, only online renewals were listed as renewals - renewals done by staff were included in the checkout numbers.  When comparing numbers, you’ll see that the renewal numbers are now much higher than on previous reports, and the circ numbers are lower.  For some libraries, this is a significant change, because they do a lot of staff-initiated renewals.  For other libraries, this change has a much smaller effect.

If you have any questions about these changes, please call or email Gerri at the OWLS office.

This month, Innovative changed the configuration of our system, to count renewals by the checkout agency, rather than by the patron home agency. 

Because of this, we've had to make adjustments to the spreadsheets and databases we use to produce the monthly circ statistics.  While we're making progress, the process is taking a bit longer than we thought it might.  We expect these statistics to be available early next week.

In the middle of last month, a change was made to the way we track renewal statistics.

We've finally implemented a long anticipated Innovative enhancement.  Renewals are now assigned to the circulating library, instead of simply to "online."  It will now be easier to see where an item was originally circulated, and we will have more accurate data for statistics.

In order for us to have the data we need for the circulation reports, a change was made to the Web Management Reports.  From now on, when you run a Cross Tab report, it will need to be run separately for checkouts and renewals.  The checkout numbers for these reports will no longer include the renewals.  This change does not apply to the regular Circulation Web Management Reports.  In these reports, the checkout figures do include renewals. 

The Monthly Checkouts and Renewals and Monthly Checkouts and Renewals by Municipality statistics from June through December have been updated online.  The original June statistics posted online were incorrect.  They  included the May renewal figures - something we didn't discover until last week.  (Thanks, Vicki for pointing this out!) 

The total difference was only 298 renewals, but since it affected the total annual figures, we updated all of the monthly spreadsheets. 

If you have questions, please contact Gerri at the OWLS office.

The following documents discussed at AAC have been posted online (and are also linked to from the Jan 2010 AAC agenda:

• 2009 OWLSnet Partnership Report
• Rental vs. Retail DVD introduction
  
• Brainstorming 'bout Browsing discussion group report
• Holds Analysis Charts:
• holds placed
• holds placed monthly
• holds placed quarterly
• ILLs quarterly
• Circulation quarterly
• Holds/ILLs/Circulation
• TNS project costs - updated costs for OWLSnet libraries