Alma Analytics: Add "Pickup Location" to the Borrowing Requests Subject Area
We need tp know which local library locations requested how many items from each Lending institution in an analytic report. When Borrowing requests first go out go out we can easily see which of our, let's say 4, different library pick up locations ordered each item by looking at the pick up location parameter in the facets, The pick up location is even maintained in Alma once the item is filled. But it is not available in the Borrowing Request subject area of the analytic. We can only get an aggregate campus total for requests borrowed from each Lending Institution. In this example let's say our libraries or pickup locations are called "Main Library" Science Library" "Medical Library" and "Law Library" Now let's say in one month we filled Borrowing requests from Lending Institutions "Munchkin College", "Doc Brown Tech", and "Lukeiamyourfather University", We can currently run an analytic that give us campus aggregates of the number of requests we borrowed from each institution such as 80 physical and 5 digital from "Munchkin College"; 50 physical and 10 digital from "Doc Brown Tech" and 18 physical and 9 digital from "Lukeiamyour father University". But we need a more granular report that would show for example, that of the 80 physical and 5 digital requests we got from "Munchkin College" for the physical, 40 were requested by the Main Library, 30 were by Science, 8 by Medical and 2 by Law. And lets says all 5 digital items were requested by Science. And a similar breakdown would continue for the other Lending Institutions as well. Adding the pickup location field to the Borrowing requests subject area would enable us to break down the campus aggregates by the individual requesting libraries.
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Dianna Sahhar commented
We really do need to have the breakdown by location of these stats.
Thank you!