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The borrowing report is a count of the items borrowed by each institution sorted by where they borrowed the item from. The lending report counts the items lent by each institution sorted by who they lent the item to since go-live.
NOTENote: Both reports should show generally the same number of transactions, plus or minus a few. But you You will see discrepancies at some institutions that are due to choices about workflow (such as marking a rejected/unfilled request as "completed" which would inflate the number of filled lending requests but have no effect on the number of borrowing requests) or technical glitches in Alma. The borrowing report provides a more accurate picture of the actual volume of material sent between campusesnotice some discrepancies as a result of how borrowing and lending requests are counted. Borrowing requests use the presence of “item arrival date” to count requests actually received by the borrower while lending requests use the presence of “item sent date” to count requests actually shipped by the lender. Lending numbers are generally higher than borrowing numbers because of items that are still in transit and those cancelled by patrons that were shipped and not received.
CSU+ dashboard
Nikki DeMoville at CalPoly SLO has created an excellent dashboard of CSU+ statistics that gives a great overall snapshot of how our resource sharing system is functioning. Natalya Magazino at San Marcos and Meghann Weldon at Humboldt modified and added additional reports. The dashboard currently includes:
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