WorldShare Reports release notes, June 2020

LHR Item Data

LHR Acquisition Method: Based on the 008/07 of the local holdings record representing how the institution acquires the item. The one character code is converted to the readable name, e.g., "Gift" for code g.

LHR Electronic Location URI: From the 856 $u of the local holdings record, the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which provides electronic access data in a standard syntax.

LHR Former Shelving Location: From the 852 $d of the local holdings record, the call numbers/shelf numbers where a resource was previously located.

LHR Invalid or Cancelled Barcode: From the 876-878 $r of the local holdings record, an invalid or canceled machine-readable piece designation (barcode).

LHR Lending Policy: Based on the 008/20 of the local holdings record representing the institution's external lending policy for the item. The one character code is converted to the readable name, e.g., "Will not lend" for code b.

LHR Linkage Number: Based on the 014 of the local holdings record, a concatenation of the 014 1st indicator (linkage type) and 014 $a (linkage number), representing a control number transferred from either field 001 (Control Number) or field 004 (Control Number for Related Bibliographic Record) of a holdings record.

LHR Local Summary Holdings: A statement summarizing the set of local holdings records associated with a bibliographic record. This can be generated by the system, or created manually.

LHR Reproduction Policy: Based on the 008/21 of the local holdings record representing the institution's reproduction policy for the item. The one character code is converted to the readable name, e.g., "Will not reproduce" for code b.

 

Bibliographic Data

Cataloging Language Name: Based the 040 $b of the bibliographic record representing the language of cataloging in the record. The three character code is converted to the language name as defined by https://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/language_code.html.

Encoding Level: From the leader/17 of the bibliographic record, the description to indicate the degree of completeness of the machine-readable (MARC) record.

Part-Section Name of Work: Part-Section Name of Work,"From the 245 $p of the bibliographic record, a name designation of a part/section of a work used in a title.

Part-Section Number of Work: Part-Section Number of Work,"From the 245 $n of the bibliographic record, the number designation for a part/section of a work used in a title.

Physical Description Extent: From the 300 $a of the bibliographic record, the physical description extent of the item.

Publication Place Code: From the 008/15-17 of the bibliographic record, the two to three character code representing the state or country of publication, production or execution.

Publication Place Name: Based on the 008/15-17 of the bibliographic record representing the state or country of publication, production or execution. The two to three character code is converted to the location name as defined by https://www.loc.gov/marc/countries/countries_code.html

Series Statement: From the 490 $a of the bibliographic record, a series statement for a series title, statement of responsibility, etc.

Uniform Title Added Entry: From the 730 $a of the bibliographic record, a preferred title used as an access point that may not be more appropriately assigned as fields 130, 630, or 830.

Uniform Title Main Entry: From the 130 $a of the bibliographic record, the preferred title access point used to bring together bibliographic entries for a work when various expressions or manifestations have appeared under different titles.

Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) Number: From the 080 $a of the bibliographic record, the number taken from the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) scheme.

 

COUNTER 5 Database Usage Summary

The COUNTER 5 Database Usage Summary report provides a summary of your library's C5DR_D1 for a requested period of time. Summaries of usage by Vendor Name are provided for Database Automated Searches, Database Federated Searches, Database Regular Searches, Database Total Item Investigations and Database Total Item Requests. The COUNTER 5 Database Vendor Usage Detail report, which provides your library a detailed view of your library's C5DR_D1 data by database name by month, can be launched from this report.

 

COUNTER 5 Database Denials Summary

The COUNTER 5 Database Denials Summary report provides a summary of your library's C5DR_D2 data for a requested period of time. Summaries of denials by Vendor name are provided for Database Limit Exceeded Denials and Database No License Denials. In addition, this report provides your library with a visualization of denials by vendor.

 

New COUNTER Database Usage Folder

A new COUNTER Database Usage folder is now available in WorldShare Report Designer. If you are a Report Designer customer this gives your library the ability to create custom reports based on the DR_D1 and DR_D2 data harvested by your institution in WorldShare License Manager.

View membership information in the Circulation Events Detail report

The Circulation Events Detail report has been updated to include new fields to help your library report membership information. The new fields that have been included in the report are Event Patron Membership Start Date, Event Patron Membership Expiration Date, Event Patron Membership Policy Name, Event Patron Membership Status.

 Note: these fields will be associated with the new Event Type = "Start Membership"

Event Patron Membership Start Date: The date when a patron's membership fee was fully paid or waived, and the membership period began at the time of the event.

Event Patron Membership Expiration Date: The expiration date of the patron's membership period at the time of the event.

Event Patron Membership Policy Name: The name of the library's membership policy that applies to the patron's membership at the time of the event.

Event Patron Membership Status: The patron's membership status at the time of the event, e.g., Active, Pending, etc.

View membership information in the Patron Information Detail Report

The Patron Information Detail Report has been updated to include new fields to help your library report membership information. The new fields that have been included in the report are Event Patron Membership Start Date, Event Patron Membership Expiration Date, Event Patron Membership Policy Name, Event Patron Membership Status. This report also includes a new prompt for Patron Membership Start Date and Patron Membership Expiration Date, as well as a new input control from Patron Membership Status.

Patron Membership Start Date: The date when a patron's membership fee was fully paid or waived, and the membership period began.

Patron Membership Expiration Date: The expiration date of the patron's most recent membership period. 

Patron Membership Policy Name: The name of the library's membership policy that applies to the patron's most recent membership.

Patron Membership Status: The patron's membership status , e.g., Active, Pending, etc.

Utilize new membership information objects in WorldShare Report Designer

In addition to the updated Circulation Event Detail Report and Patron Information Detail Report standard reports, WorldShare Report Designer customers get access to patron membership information to use in customer reporting. This information is available in the following universes.

Circulation Events

In the Circulation Events universe, there are two sets of new membership objects available for use:

• The set which can be found in the Event Details folder is for use at the time of the event.
• The second set of new membership objects can be found in Account Information folder of the Event Patron folder. This set of objects is for current membership information.

Circulation Fiscal Transactions

Circulation Hold Request

Circulation Item Status

Circulation Patron Information

Circulation Scheduled Items

Use the new Event Pending Payment ID and Event Charging Institution objects.

You can now use the Event Pending Payment ID, Event Charging Institution Name, and Event Charging Institution Symbol objects when running reports in the Circulation Events universe. The Event Charging Institution Name, and Event Charging Institution Symbol objects have been added to WorldShare Report Designer to help your consortium report on paid library fees and which institution in your group charged the fees against a patron's account. The Event Pending Payment ID object has been added to WorldShare Report Designer to help your library report on pending payments processed through an online payment processor.

The Event Charging Institution Name and Event Charging Institution Symbol objects replace Event Billing Institution Name and Event Billing Institution Symbol.

Event Charging Institution Name: The institution whose policies or staff created a bill against a patron’s account.

Event Charging Institution Symbol: The institution symbol for the institution whose policies or staff created a bill against a patron’s account.

Event Pending Payment ID: The identifier of the pending payment that was provided to the online payment processor.

Use new Fiscal Charging Institution objects

You can now use the Fiscal Charging Institution Name and Fiscal Charging Institution Symbol objects when running reports in the Circulation Fiscal Transactions universe. These two objects have been added to WorldShare Report Designer to help your consortium report on paid library fees and which institution in your group charged the fees against a patron's account.

Fiscal Charging Institution Name: The institution whose policies or staff created a bill against a patron’s account.

Fiscal Charging Institution Symbol: The institution symbol for the institution whose policies or staff created a bill against a patron’s account.

Use the new Return Reason and Copy Previous Returned Indicator objects

You can now use the Return Reason and Copy Previously Returned Indicator objects when running reports in the Acquisitions universe. The Return Reason is associated with copies of an order item and used to describe to library staff the reason for an item being returned. The Copy Previously Returned Indicator displays whether or not a received item was previously returned to the vendor before being received. The feature utilizing both of these objects was made available in the April 2020 release of WorldShare Acquisitions.

 

Please note that only the base reason name will be displayed in WorldShare Report Designer.

Use the new Acquisitions order/invoice objects

You can now use the Payment Reference ID, External Order ID and External Invoice ID objects when running reports in the Acquisitions universe. The addition of these objects will help your library with reporting on information from external financial systems. The feature utilizing these objects was made available in the April 2020 release of WorldShare Acquisitions.

Payment Reference ID: Alphanumeric string representing the payment transaction ID (e.g. check number or bank transfer number) for an invoice. This value is often entered based on information from the institution's financial system.

External Invoice ID: Alphanumeric string representing an external financial system’s ID for a specific invoice in Acquisitions.

External Order ID: Alphanumeric string representing an external financial system’s ID for a specific order in Acquisitions.

In addition, objects previously in the Invoice Last Paid Dates folder have been renamed to Invoice Last Paid System Dates and a new set of date objects called Invoice Last Paid Staff Dates has been added. This change has been made to help your library better differentiate between when an invoice was marked by a staff member and when it was marked paid by the system.

Old Invoice Last Paid Dates

New Invoice Last Paid Staff Dates and Invoice Last Paid System Dates