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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.
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Schedule this report on a regular interval and it can be emailed to you or whoever handles following up on these items. More information on scheduling analytics reports can be found in the Alma Online Help.
Take a look at the Lost CSU+ items page for more details about what to do with the "long lost" requests that are identified using this query.
Finding Borrowing Requests that need to be marked "Lost"
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Schedule this report on a regular interval and it can be emailed to you or whoever handles following up on these items. More information on scheduling analytics reports can be found in the Alma Online Help.
Take a look at the Lost CSU+ items page for more details about what to do with the "long lost" requests that are identified using this query.
A note on how the 90 day time frame was chosen to identify "long overdue" and therefore lost materials
In April 2018 Mallory analyzed return rates of a 5 campus sample, looking at how many items were returned after their due dates and how many days after the due date the item was returned. The goal was to identify the time frame in which the most loans were returned that could also allow libraries the flexibility to replace items within the time frame of a semester should they choose to do so. The analysis included all user groups and all types of loans except item policies that indicated a checkout period of less than 1 week.
A 30 day overdue window was too short, showing that higher volume campuses still had more than 10% of items that were ultimately returned still on loan. Increasing the overdue period from 30 to 90 days essentially cuts the number of outstanding checkouts in half, bringing every campus down to single digit outstanding returns ranging from under 1% to 6%.