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While reasons for statistical reporting are unknown and not shared; there exists suggested reasons for statistical reporting for studies on values and impacts of libraries and their collections which encourages desires for further reporting of changes in the libraries and collections, where counts of additional and withdrawal of items each year are significant in the report build.
Further, due to the occasional amendments to the past annual UCOP and ARL stats submissions recorded in past annual UCOP stats reports and discussed and presented by representatives from ARL; the manual amendments practiced can be eliminated with the inclusion of the date fields in the report built in Alma Analytics. However, while the design behind Alma and Alma Analytics are promising, problems with the date fields surfaced.
As a result, the following variables and a combination of them were reviewed for decisions to be made:
Physical Items
Lifecycle
Material Type v. Resource Type
Item Creation Date v. Creation Date
Item Receiving Date v. Receiving Date v. Receiving Date (Calendar)
Item Modification Date v. Modification Date
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