Interesting reports
Have you ever taken the time to go to the Reports page other than to do a Batch Rerun? There are some very interesting reports you can run.
The Average and Maximum supply times as a Borrower and Lender allow you to compare the length of time for you to fill requests vs. the length of time for libraries to fill your requests.
How about the Loan requested per title report. This will give you a list of all of the titles your users have requested.
The Requests by days of the week report will give you an idea of when to take a day off. Sunday is probably going to be the slowest day for most of you.
I like to look at the Incoming requests by Borrower and Outgoing requests by Supplier. These 2 reports will show you who you are sending material to most often and who is filling your users' requests. Now that we have adjusted the rotas and with the load leveling program no one library should stand out in these reports (excluding MINITEX of course because of all the requests which default to them).
Don't forget that you can limit the date range of any of your report queries. Some of these reports cast a very wide net, so for best (quickest) results you may want to run them later in the day or later in the week.
Many of the reports that return information can be put in an Excel file. "How do you do this", you may ask. Well let me tell you. FIrst put the cursor over the middle of the reports page. Then right-click with your mouse and choose the option Select All. Right-click again and choose Copy. Now if you have not already opened a new Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, do so. Choose the drop-down menu of Edit and select the option Paste Special. A new window should open up and you want to Paste as HTML Then click OK. Now you can format your Report results as you would like.