For Returning Users
For those who have gone through the tutorial and training and are just looking quickly for the most current copy of the worksheet, they have placed here in this box.
For New Users
INTRODUCTION:
Libraries often need to run reports on the library collections. For example, each year the library must submit an IPEDS Statistical Survey to the U.S. Dept of Education which includes the count for the number of:
The report in WMS that will provide the necessary title counts for these formats is Title Holdings by Material Format Report, found in WMS Analytics.
1. First, using WMS Analytics, you will retrieve the title count for all format/subformats quantities for the desired time period . Counting all the subformats, there will be about 46 or more numbers.
2. However, most libraries count the collections using only about 6 formats. So you will use the BCU Collections worksheet as a translation table, letting you know which WMS subformat goes under which BCU format.
3. Last, total title quantities in the worksheet and transfer totals to the report you are compiling for the library.