[Michlib-l] Magazine Use

[Shawn Andary]

 Hi Kelli,

In addition to using a generic in-house user as Andrea mentions, your
automated system may have a feature to mark an item as being "used"
without checking it out.  Additionally, our Symphony system has an
ephemeral checkout option that can be used which does a
checkout/checkin transaction each time an item is scanned to update
the item as being circulated, and recording stats.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Andrea Mucha <amucha at cityofwarren.org> wrote:
> We have a user account set up as 'inhouse'.  Any items left out on tables,
> placed at the ends of shelves, etc are checked out to 'inhouse', discharged,
> and sorted to shelve.  Each inhouse check out shows up in our system as a
> checkout.  This method doesn't differentiate between regular checkouts and
> inhouse, but it is something.
>
>
>
> Andrea Mucha
>
> Office Assistant
>
> Warren Public Library
>
> Dorothy M Busch Branch
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> 23333 Ryan Road
>
> Warren MI 48091
>
> (586) 755-5750
>
> (586) 756-4292 Fax
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> http://www.warrenlibrary.net/
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>
>
> ________________________________
> From: michlib-l-bounces at mail.mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces at mail.mcls.org> on
> behalf of Kelli Perkins <kperkins at herrickdl.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:05 PM
> To: michlib-l at lists.mcls.org
> Subject: [Michlib-l] Magazine Use
>
>
> Has anyone found an effective way to count magazine use beyond circulation?
> Since this is such a browsing collection, I haven't found a way to determine
> how much use individual titles get from browsers who don't check them out.
> Ideas? I have seen fancy mechanisms that physically count how many times
> something is lifted from the shelf, but I'm looking for a more low tech
> solution!
>
>
> Kelli Perkins
> Head of Reference Services
> Herrick District Library
> 300 S River Ave, Holland MI 49423
> 616.355.3718
> kperkins at herrickdl.org
>
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