ECHS - Reports & Reference

(1 1/2 hours)
I worked with the LMS to run reports of circulation and other activities for the LMS. Since she had not used this function in a while, we learned the steps together. We ended up having to use the "HELP" function to find the correct tabs, but it was fairly simple to do after that. There was a lot of circulation of the technology resources, computer labs, fiction items and VHS/DVDs (as usual), as well as an unusually high circulation of non-fiction items. For this time of year, it is not as common to see non-fiction items checked out as many research projects have not been assigned and the school year is only in its second month. However, this was encouraging in that at least the collection is being used.

I also spent some time to evaluate the reference collection with the LMS. We ran a report of what was currently in the collection, then went through each set and evaluated it by age and usage. She had lots of valuable input and really helped me to see why we have what we have in the collection. On many of the items she even remembered who requested the original purchase of the item. Our LMS has been around for a while so she really knows her stuff! She is a vast well of knowledge and it was very enlightening to work her on this. She also had valuable input about what needed to be updated and added to the collection.