Using Millennium Statistics and
Web Management Reports
Jennifer Parsons
Systems Librarian
What to Expect
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Please ask questions!
Exercises
Follow-up from the trainer
Evaluation forms
Objectives
•Use and understand both modules
•Design and run queries
•Export data
•Know which module to use for what purpose
In order to…
•Compile local circulation/ILL/financial/etc.
data for your institution
How Stats & WMR Work
Millennium counts two kinds of data:
Fields
Transactions
(Statistics)
(Web Management Reports)
Record fields are used to
describe items, orders, or
other information in the
database.
A transaction is any process by
Millennium that causes a change
in any record field, or an
exchange of information in the
software or WebPAC.
How Stats & WMR Don’t Work
•Indefinite storage
•Moving backwards and forwards in time
•Providing comprehensive analysis
•i.e., “information” as opposed to “data”
•Field-specific information
•Cf. Create Lists can find out one kind of
information at a time
Exercises!
I. How Statistics and Web Management
Reports Work
1. What would I use to find what kind of MAT
TYPE codes are in my collection, and how
frequently they are used?
a.) Create Lists
b.) Statistics
c.) Web Management Reports
Exercises!
I. How Statistics and Web Management
Reports Work
1. What would I use to find what kind of MAT
TYPE codes are in my collection, and how
frequently they are used?
a.) Create Lists
b.) Statistics
c.) Web Management Reports
Exercises!
I. How Statistics and Web Management
Reports Work
2. What word or words can be used to describe
data on patron searches in the WebPAC?
a.) Field code compilation
b.) Transactional
c.) Financial
Exercises!
I. How Statistics and Web Management
Reports Work
3. Where would I go to find information on INNReach circulation for the last month?
a.) Create Lists
b.) Statistics
c.) Web Management Reports
Exercises!
I. How Statistics and Web Management
Reports Work
3. Where would I go to find information on INNReach circulation for the last month?
a.) Create Lists
b.) Statistics
c.) Web Management Reports
Millennium Statistics
•Caveat user!
•Running a report takes up a port (user license)
•Required authorizations (Manual #101791):
•19: Create statistical reports
Millennium Statistics
•Found across Millennium client modules
•Compiles data for all record types
•Bibliographic
•Item
•Order
•Budget Planning & Collection Development
•Holdings
•Patron
Millennium Statistics: Queries
•Field Statistics
•Compiles all possible values for all fixed-length
(and some variable) fields in a particular kind of
record
•Periodic Report
•Compares fixed-length fields over a period of time
•Cross-tab Report
•Compares two fields within same type of records
Exercises!
II. Millennium Statistics
1. What kind of query would be best at finding
bad vendor codes for your cluster?
Exercises!
II. Millennium Statistics
2. You and your staff would like to know how
many titles with multiple copies are your
library’s holdings, and what their location codes
are. What type of query would you use to
discover this?
Exercises!
II. Millennium Statistics
3. Write a query that would help you find how
many new bib records were added per quarter
over the last year.
Web Management Reports
Essentially, pre-generated report templates for:
•User access
•Circulation
•Collection
•Acquisitions
•INN-Reach
Most reports count transactions, as opposed to
fields.
Web Management Reports
•“Spreadsheet” interface
•Access via http://[YourClusterIP]/iii/webrpt
•Web Browser interface
•Access via http://[YourClusterIP]/manage
•Port 4448 must be opened
Web Management Reports
•Required authorizations:
•14: Web collection development reports
•15: Analyze patron searches
•17: Circulation statistics
•87: Vendor activity reports
•677: View Web Management Reports 2007
This last authorization gives view-only access to the
spreadsheet interface.
Web Management Reports
Transactions counted are sorted by:
•Fields
•Agency
•SCAT (Statistical CATagories) table
•User location
•Stat group/terminal
•Home location of patron or item
•Locations Served table
Exercises!
III. Web Management Reports
1. How would you use Web Management
Reports to find how many patrons have
checked out items yesterday?
Exercises!
III. Web Management Reports
2. Using Web Management Reports, calculate
how much your library’s collection has grown
over this calendar year.
Exercises!
III. Web Management Reports
3. Use Web Management Reports to find how
many patron types have checked out what
kinds of materials in any given period of time
(for example, for the calendar year to date).
Thank you!
Jennifer Parsons
•jennifer@mobiusconsortium.org
•http://help.mobiusconsortium.org