Statistical Categories (Crossover between Fulfillment & Users Subject Areas
Here is my problem. We want our statistical categories linked to Fulfillment. We want to know how many patrons pursuing a Nursing degree are checking out items from the library? Itt does us no good to have data on who is pursuing a nursing degree in the users section, but not be able to link that in the fulfillment section. Because of the design of the statistical categories and the fact that we do not have a way to import every possible degree, job ID, etc. and keep the list up-to-date as it changes, this is how we have them set up:
We have the following statistical categorizes
PLAN, PROGRAM, COLLEGE, DEGREE, DEPARTMENT, DEPTID, AND JOBTITLE
We have these categories mapped into the following category types:
DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, JOB, PLAN-PROGRAM, DEGREE
The actual value of these categories such as the actual degree is put in a note field. So where the actual data we need lies is the Users Section > Statistics Table > Statistical Category & Note fields. Unfortunately I don't see this info anywhere in the fulfillment section. This area is not shared with fulfillment either so you cannot get the information when linking the 2 subject areas.
I do have the Statistical Category 1-5 fields mapped, but it actually gives you the label of Department, College, Degree, etc. and not the note field associated with these that contains the actual data.
Having this info available in Fulfillment would be a great improvement to the system. Another way to get at this same information is when doing Patron imports allow the statistical category to be filled in with whatever value is there instead of limiting it to certain ones.
Elizabeth Jones
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