Topics covered in this section:
Patron Details
Patron Name
Patron Holding Statistics
Loan Parameters
Reservation Reports
Loan Reports
Circulation Statistics
SDI advice notices
 

Circulation Menu  > Circulation Reports

Patron Details: The Patron Details Report will provide a full listing of all patron details.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required, insert a date of Birth range
Step 6: Select Code, Department or Surname for sorting the report
Step 7
: Once the criteria for the report has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.


Patron Name: Similar to the Patron Details report, Patron name will provide a one line listing per patron.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: Select Code, Department or Surname for sorting the report
Step 6: Once the criteria for the report has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.


Patron Holding Statistics: Provides a Department/Group/Type breakdown of patron members.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required, insert a date of Birth range
Step 6: Select Code, Department or Surname for sorting the report
Step 7: Once the criteria for the report has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed.


Loan Parameters: Prints essential issue durations and item quantities governing the library’s circulation system.
Loans Matrix
: For each GMD/patron/department/Group/Type intersection, prints loan duration, number of items and fine amount.
Step 1: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 2: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 3: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 4: If required, select a GMD range (default is all GMDs)
Step 6: Select Code, Department or Surname for sorting the report
Step 6: Option to print legend (Yes/No)
Step 7: Once the criteria for the report has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Hire Matrix: for each intersection, the date that each item is due for return.
Step 1: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 2: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 3: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 4: If required and if multiple sites exist, select a Site range (default is all sites)
Step 5: Once the criteria for the report has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.


Reservation Reports
Reporting on items that have been reserved by patrons.
Print Reservations Available
: Listing of all reservations available for pickup across the library’s collection.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required and if multiple sites exist, select a Site range (default is all sites)
Step 6: If required insert Date First Contacted range (default is any date)
Step 7: If required insert Date Last Contacted range (default is any date)
Step 8: Select Code, Department or Surname for sorting the report
Step 9: Once the criteria for the report has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Print Reservations Available Notices: Generation of notices for sending to patrons advising reservation is available for collection. These notices may also be sent via e-mail rather than printed.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required and if multiple sites exist, select a Site range (default is all sites)
Step 6: If required insert Date First Contacted range (default is any date)
Step 7: If required insert Date Last Contacted range (default is any date)
Step 8: If required insert a Notice Count range (default is any number of notices)
Step 9: Insert a Collection Date
Step 10
: Enter a Reservation Available message to be printed on all notices
Step 11: Select Code, Department or Surname for sorting the report
Step 12: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Print Reservations Available Notices Public: Generation of notices for sending to patrons advising reservation is available for collection in print format only for public libraries that use pre-printed paper.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required insert Date when the first advice was printed range (default is any date)
Step 6: Select option to print All or First Time new entries.
Step 7: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

List All Outstanding Reservations: Listing of all items that have been placed on reserve (both available and those that have not yet been returned).
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required and if multiple sites exist, select a Site range (default is all sites)
Step 6
: If required insert Date range (default is any date)
Step 7: If required select a range of Accession numbers (default is any Accession number)
Step 8: Select a collating order of Author, Accession Number, Surname or Department for sorting the report
Step 9: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.


Loan Reports
Reporting for items that have been loaned to patrons.

Loans Listing: Listing of items that are currently on loan.
Step 1: Enter a Date Due
Step 2
: Enter a title for the report
Step3: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 4: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 5: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 6: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 7: If required and if multiple sites exist, select a Site range (default is all sites)
Step 8: If required insert a Loan Time range (default is any period of loan)
Step 8: Select a Printing order of Code, Department, Surname or Date Due for sorting the report
Step 9: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Overdue Notices: Printing of overdue notices to be sent to patrons. Users are able to type a message and select delivery method (print, e-mail or print & e-mail) for all or a range of patrons.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required and if multiple sites exist, select a Site range (default is all sites)
Step 8: If required insert a Number of Notices Issued range (default is any number of notices)
Step 9
: Insert a Loan Duration range (default is any loan duration)
Step 10: Enter a Date Due range
Step 11: Select preferred method for printing through E-mail Options (Print Notices for All, Send E-mail notices , no report or Print Notices for no Email addresses)
Step 12: If sending e-mail notices, a user is able to enter Message Text that will appear on the e-mail notice.
Step 13: Select a collating order of Author, Accession Number, Surname or Department for sorting the report
Step 14: Select a preferred printer (clip board will paste report to clip board so that data can then be pasted to other applications).
Step 15: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Borrowing History: Listing of transactions associated with a Barcode, Accession Number or Patron Code.
Step1: Enter a Barcode, Accession Number or a Patron Code.
Step 2: Enter a title for the report
Step 3: Enter a Date range
Step 4
: Enter a Borrowing Type range Reservations, Issues, Returns.
Step 5: Select a preferred printer (clip board will paste report to clip board so that data can then be pasted to other applications).
Step 6: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Items Not Borrowed: List of items that have no associated transactions as of a specified date.
Step1: Enter a Date from which to start the report.
Step 2: Select a GMD range (default is all GMDs)
Step 3: If required, enter a sub GMD range (default is all sub GMDs)
Step 4: Enter a Dewey Range (default is all Dewey numbers)
Step 5: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.


Circulation Statistics
Statistical information relating to patrons and circulation and LISWA requirements.

Patron
Patron Holding
: Number of patrons by membership status (non-member, expired member, active member) for each month over the last 12 months by user-nominated collating group.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2
: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3
: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: Select a Membership Date range (default highest value is today’s date)
Step 6: Select a collating order from Department, Group, Type, Patron Age or Membership Type for sorting the report
Step 7: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Circulation
Circulation Statistics
: provides statistics for groups of circulation activities for the user selected criteria. Represented in graphical chart format.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2
: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5: If required select Age range (default is any age)
Step 6: If required insert an Accession number range (default is all accession numbers)
Step 7: If required select a Dewey number range (default is any Dewey number)
Step 8: If required select a GMD range (default is any GMD)
Step 9: If required insert a Loan Date range (default is any date)
Step 10: If required insert a Loan Type range (default is any loan type)
Step 11: Select a collating order from the drop-down menu for sorting the report
Step 12: Enter a title for the report
Step 13: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Patron Borrowing: Number of issues, returns and reservations processed over a nominated date range based on a user selected range of criteria.
Step1: Select Patron Range by entering the alphabetically lowest Patron Code and highest Patron Code (click the Search button to find a specific code).
Step 2: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 3: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 4: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 5
: If required select Notice Count range (default is any number of notices)
Step 6: If required insert an Borrowing Count range (default is number of times that an item has been borrowed)
Step 7: Insert a Borrowing Date range (default is any date)
Step 8: Enter a title for the report
Step 9: Select a collating order from the list for sorting the report
Step 10: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

LISWA
Resident/Non-Resident Statistics
: Breakdown of patron loans by Department and Group by Patron Type for Residents and Non-Residents. Users are able to specify which suburbs to include in the Resident classification.
Step 1: Specify Start and End Date Range
Step 2: Type first suburb to be included in residential suburbs, hit Tab, type subsequent suburbs hitting Tab each time. The next time you run this report the suburbs that you have entered will automatically appear.
Step 3: Click Process to send to your local printer, Preview to view on the screen, Reset to return settings to defaults or Print Screen to print the current settings.

LISWA Issue Statistics: Requires issue statistics as outlined by LISWA, available by date range and copy status.
Step 1: Select earliest Date, click Tab and enter the latest date (default will be today’s date)
Step 2: Select copy status. If Issues is selected as the lowest value and Issues is selected as the highest value, only those items that have been issued will be included in the report (as for Returns for Returns/Returns and Reservations for Reservations/Reservations). If a user selects Issues as the lowest value and Reservations as the highest value, all items of any copy status will be included in this report.
Step 3: Click Process to send to your local printer, Preview to view on the screen, Reset to return settings to defaults or Print Screen to print the current settings.


SDI Advice Notes: Printing of notices advising the arrival of items for subjects which patrons have indicated a request for notification.
Step 1: Enter the date from which notifications are to be raised.
Step 2: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 3: If required, select a Department range (default is all departments)
Step 4: If required, select a Group range (default is all Groups)
Step 5: If required, select a Patron Type range (default is all Patron Types)
Step 6: Select a Printing order of Code, Department, Surname or Date Due for sorting the report
Step 7
: Once the criteria for the notices has been set, the user can select to Preview the report on the screen, or selecting Process will send the report directly to the default local Printer. If the Preview option has been selected, the report can be viewed, then the screen may be printed. Reset will revert all fields to default values.

Related Topics:
- Controls > Circulation Controls > Control Parameters