Viewing Patrons Circulation Reports

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

The Patrons Circulation report displays statistics on all items that were checked out as of midnight the previous night.

To view the Patrons report:

  1. Choose Circ Activity from the reports menu.
  2. Choose Patrons from the reports menu.
  3. To restrict the report data to one of these options, choose one of the following under the By section of the reports menu:

    Patron TypeDisplays the number of patrons with items, the number and percentage of items, average items per user, the number of patrons with items overdue, the number of patrons with fines, and the total fines, by patron type.
    Item TypeDisplays the number of items checked out, the number of items overdue, and the total fines, by item type.
    Item LocationDisplays the number of items checked out, the number of items overdue, and the total fines, by item location.
Reports by Item Type or Item Location

Reports by item type or item location include the following special lines of information:

Manual Charges

Manual charges are the current manual charges on the system. These charges cannot be included in any line for item type or item location because they are not linked to an item.

Item Deleted

Item deleted charges are charges for items that have been deleted from the system. These charges cannot be included in any line for item type or item location because the items have been deleted.

  1. Choose Submit.
  2. To view the most recent data, choose Recalculate.