NOBLE:
North of Boston Library Exchange

Year-End Statistics FY01

E. Holdings Information as of 6/30/2001

Holdings information is broken down by format type to match up as closely as possible with the formats in the ARIS form. The formats were derived from the ITYPE in the Innopac. If the Item Format or ITYPE was ambiguous, the statistics were counted under miscelleneous(for example, Special Collection). Cross Tab reports (ITYPE by Location) were used to gather these statistics.

The categories for ADULT/YA and CHILDREN are derived from the location code in the item records. Codes ending with an "a" are included in the ADULT totals; codes ending with a "j" are included in the CHILDREN totals. College library reports retain the original location code and are not broken down by Adult/Children.

For periodical holdings, the system is only able to count issues. Since the ARIS and IPEDS forms request that you report bibliographic volumes and not the number of issues, the number was replaced with "n/c".

This corresponds to section E of the ARIS form.

BEB | BEF | BEV | BLC | DAN | EVE | EVS | GLB | GLO | LFD | LYH | LYN | LYS | LYW | MAR | MEL | PEA | PES | PEW | RDG | REV | SAL | SAU | STO | SWA | WAK | WTH

BHC | END | GOR | MCA | MCB | MCL | MER | MON | NEH | NEL | NSB | NSES | NSL | SSC

The following chart shows the number of bibliographic records that each college library is attached to. This corresponds with the IPEDS request for the number of titles owned.

Number of Bib Records--Colleges

G. Circulation Totals

Circulation totals are broken down by format type to match up as closely as possible with the formats in the Board of Library Commissioners' Annual Report Information Survey (ARIS). The formats were derived from the ITYPE field. If the Item Format or ITYPE was ambiguous, the statistics were counted under miscelleneous (for example, Special Collection).

NOTE: checkouts to patrons with a PTYPE of "Special Patron" were subtracted from the ADULT/YA totals. These checkouts were for internal use only and should not be counted as a checkout on the ARIS form.

These statistics were generated from a Cross Tab report with the rows set to ITYPE and the columns set to item Location. The item location was used to determine whether material was adult/YA or childrens.

You can view the System Totals or select a library below to view complete detailed reports.

BEB | BEF | BEV | BLC | DAN | EVE | EVS | GLO | GLB | LFD | LYN | MAR | MEL | PEA | PES | PEW | RDG | REV | SAL | SAU | STO | SWA | WAK | WTH

BHC | END | GOR | MCC | MER | MON | NECC | NSCC | SSC

H. Interlibrary Loans

Interlibrary loan statistics were gathered from 5 different reports:

Non-Owned Items Circulated - This report shows ILL's among NOBLE libraries.

The following reports include complete ILL activity including the statistics from the Non-Owned report (above).

BEV | BLC | DAN | EVE | GLO | LFD | LYN | MAR | MEL | PEA | RDG | REV | SAL | SAU | STO | SWA | WAK | WTH

The college ILL statistics are formatted as per the IPEDS form:

BHC | END | GOR | MCC | MER | MON | NECC | NSCC | SSC

I. Interlibrary Loans in Table G

Some circs counted above were actually ILL's provided to other libraries and not circs directly to library patrons. These were checkouts to patrons with a PTYPE of "ILL Patron". Checkouts to these ILL cards are done to track where an item is located when it is routed off the system. Some of these checkouts were to other NOBLE libraries to fill book group requests where the requesting library did not place holds, but asked that multiple copies of a title be sent to them.

Interlibrary Loans in Table G

J. Nonresident Circulation Transactions

Non-Resident borrowing statistics are taken from the Circ Activity Report (sorted by RECIPROCAL) of the Innovative system. Reciprocal borrowing is determined by the code in the RECIPROCAL field of the patron's record.

This corresponds to section J of the ARIS form.

BEV | DAN | EVE | GLO | LFD | LYN | MAR | MEL | PEA | RDG | REV | SAL | SAU | STO | SWA | WAK | WTH

L. Number of Registered Borrowers

The number of registered borrowers as of 6/30/2001 is counted by the RECIPROCAL field to most closely represent residents of your community.

This corresponds to section L of the ARIS form and Section D of the of the ARIS Additional Information Survey.

Number of Registered Borrowers

Net Lending Offset Progam Statistics

The Net Lender form for the MBLC requires that you look at your ILL statistics by region. The ILL statistics above were reworked to show loans to and borrows from region members. In cases where the loan or borrow was ambiguous (ILL to Hospitals), the stats were deleted. Also, loans to or from libraries that are not members of a Massachusetts region were deleted. For these reasons these statistics are slightly lower than the above ILL statistics.

BEV | DAN | EVE | GLO | LFD | LYN | MAR | MEL | PEA | RDG | REV | SAL | SAU | STO | SWA | WAK | WTH

BHC | END | GOR | MCC | MCL | MER | MON | NEL | NSB | SSC