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NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY
To: Board of Library Trustees
From: Melissa Kelly, Support Services Coordinator
Date: October 7, 2013
Re: Statistical Reports
Beginning this fiscal year, 2013-2014, the Library will include the checkouts of eBooks into the
circulation statistics. This is being added as a separate location line on the statistical reports
since the materials are held universally for use by all Library locations and the checkouts are
virtual, not associated with a specific location.
Staff was preparing to add the eBook circulation line to the current statistical reports, and
thought it would be a good opportunity to look at the report presentation format. We were
inspired by reports from the Omaha Public Library* which Cynthia Cowell seen in the Urban
Library Council newsletter. We feel that putting graphs and charts on the same page provides a
better visual understanding of the data.
In your packet we have given you the standard reports that the Library has been using for
several years and attached samples of the reports that we will be moving to. Our goal is to
have the new charts and graphs for the November packet. At a later date, we hope to reformat
the narrative portion of the monthly report to provide a more condensed report package.
We would appreciate your feedback and suggestions in regards to the new report format.
* www.slcpl.org/files/board/dashboard062413.pdf