shibanda millennium statistics2
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Gaelic Show ‘n Tell Workshop held at the National Library, Pretoria
09 September 2010
Maria Shibanda
University of Limpopo
Millennium Statistics
Millennium Statistics - Overview
What is Millennium Statistics?Types of Statistical ReportsFinding and fixing bad codes
Millennium Statistics A tool for creating a wide range of statistical reports about your millennium
database. Database queries can be saved, can be calculated again at any time and may be
scheduled to be run at a specific date and time Reports that you can generate are:
-How many records were catalogued in a specific time period
-Counts of record in each call number range
- How many records are for titles in foreign languages Millennium Statistics offers two main modes of operation:
-Saved queries: this option is used to create a new query, to run a
saved query,to schedule a saved query or to edit a saved query
-Results files: this option is used to view the statistical results of the query
and to create reports based on these results.
Millennium Statistics examines and reports on a particular record type when gathering statistics
Record types
Bibliographic records Order records Item records Checkin records Patron records Course records Authority records Resource records License records
Types of Statistical Reports
Field statistics reportPeriodic reportCross tabulation report
Field Statistics Report
Reports are based on fixed-length field and call numberTrack totals of all records in the databaseGathers statistics on all fixed-length field in a specified
record type
Field statistical report
Creating Field Statistics Report
Field statistics report
Periodic Report
Reports are based on date field contain in the record.eg CATDATE,Created date,Update Date,LCHKIN,ODUE DATE etc
Allows limiting the query to only those records in which a selected date field matches a specified range of years, quarters, months or days
Periodic report on bibliographic records
Periodic Report on Patron Records
Cross Tabulation ReportsReports based on crossing two specific
fixed fields.eg PTYPE on the vertical lines and Home library on the horizontal lines
Cross Tabulation Report on Total Checkout
Finding and Fixing bad codes
Bad codes are entries that appear in statistical reports under a heading labelled “Bad code” or “No code”
Annually, run a field statistics report for the entire range of records in the database to seek out, clean bad codes and Scat range not in the table.
Finding and fixing bad codes
Gap and Call No not in Scat table
References
http://yourIP address/manual/gmstat_main_page.html http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/milstats.shtml http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/badcode.shtml http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/booltroubleshooter.shtml http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/startmilstats.shtml http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/scat.shtml
