Statistics: Withdrawn items

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Status	In progress
Description	Decide if and how counts of withdrawn items should still be reported. Alma’s deleted physical item records do not represent withdrawn items for many campuses, because items are regularly deleted as mistakes.
Decision summary
Owning group	AASAP Team sils-aasa-l@listserv.ucop.edu
Approver
Consulted	AASAP Team members consulted locally.
Informed	Leadership Group
Decision-making process
Priority
Target decision date	Jun 15, 2023
Date decided	[type // to add Date]

Recommendation

Stop reporting withdrawn item counts in UCOP stats.

Impact

Stakeholder group	Impact

Stakeholder group	Impact
UC Libraries	Determinations around what and how we report are for the most part managed/owned by the UC Libraries (i.e., shared ownership).
CDL	CDL analysts, who are responsible for building report queries at the Network Zone according to templates agreements upon by the UC Libraries, will have to exclude items and titles based a variety of date parameters.

Reasoning

After review, the AASA-PT Harmonization group determined that

Background

The AASA-PT Harmonization group reviewed all the UCOP statistics data that can be retrieved via Alma Analytics. One of the factors considered during this review was the existing ACRL and ARL requirements.

Observations about the current data:

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Options Considered

	Option 1	Option 2

	Option 1	Option 2
Description
Pros
Cons

Action Log

Action/Point Person	Expected Completion Date	Notes	Status

Action/Point Person	Expected Completion Date	Notes	Status
AASA-PT		Review Draft
AASA-PT	Apr 24, 2023	Final Decision