Viewing Booking Circulation Reports

To view these reports, you must be authorized for function 17 (Circulation statistics). See Permissions Used by Sierra for more information.

The Booking report displays an analysis of booking activity (that is, when patrons reserve the use of library materials for future dates and times). This report is available only at sites that have acquired the Materials Booking product.

To view the Bookings report:

  1. Choose Circ Activity from the reports menu.
  2. Choose Booking from the reports menu.
  3. Choose one of the following date ranges from the Datessection of the reports menu:

    Yesterday
    2 days ago
    3 days ago
    MTD (month to date)
    YTD (year to date)
    User spec (Select a starting and ending month and year for the report. Enter these dates by choosing the checkbox to the left of the Starting and the Ending months.)
    Last mo (last month—When you choose this option, the report includes a comparison to the previous month's activity, and the activity for the same month in the previous year.)

  4. Choose one of the following options under the Locations section of the reports menu:

    SystemCreates one report for all locations in the system.
    SeparateCreates a separate report for each location in the system.
    One onlyCreates one report for the locations served by the current statistics group.
    SpecialCreates one report for up to ten specified locations.
  5. Choose one of the following options under the Type section of the reports menu:

    PTYPEDisplays booking statistics by patron type (PTYPE is defined by the library).
    PCODE1Displays booking statistics by patron code (PCODE1 is defined by the library).
    PCODE2Displays booking statistics by patron code (PCODE2 is defined by the library).
    PCODE3Displays booking statistics by patron code (PCODE3 is defined by the library).
    HOME LIBRDisplays booking statistics by the patron's home library.
    ICODE1Displays booking statistics by item code (ICODE1 is defined by the library).
    ICODE2Displays booking statistics by item code (ICODE2 is defined by the library).
    ITYPEDisplays booking statistics by item type (ITYPE is defined by the library).
    LOCATIONDisplays booking statistics by item location.
    CALL NUMBERDisplays booking statistics by material call numbers.
  6. Choose Submit.
  7. To view the most recent data, choose Recalculate.