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@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
23333 Ryan Road
Warren MI 48091
(586) 755-5750
(586) 756-4292 Fax
________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org> on behalf of Kelli Perkins <kperkins@herrickdl.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:05 PM To: michlib-l@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@herrickdl.org
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