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Tip for: 02.09.2004

Using Publication Date Summary for Collection Development

Summary: The Publication Date Summary report has always allowed you to see the age of your collection; however, we recently added two formats, Ignore Super Summary Classifications and Super Summary Classifications, which display the average publication year, the number of titles and copies, and the year-to-date and life-to-date usage in each area of your collection.

To run a Publication Date Summary Report:

• Select Item Reports from the Reports menu.
• Use the Report Name drop-down menu to choose Publication Date Summary.
• Choose Ignore Super Summary Classifications from the Format drop-down menu.
• Select the appropriate sort option from the Sort By drop-down menu.
• Use the Select By drop-down menu to choose the desired selection criteria.
• Click Print.

Note: Use Super Summary Classification to show statistics based on Alexandria's assigned categories. The Standard format shows by year how many items have that publication date.

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