Off-the-Grid Reporting: A Few Handy Reports in Alma Analytics

Abstract

Alma Analytics is an accessible tool for creating quick and easy analyses that can benefit departments across the library. In this session I'd like to demonstrate how we created a few "off-the-grid" (i.e. not as well known or obvious) reports that are regularly used by our staff. The titles of some of these include: Top 25 encumbrances plus everything else; Funds overview report; Bad diacritics in bibliographic records; Count of historical ILS loans plus current Alma loans; etc. If time permits I'd also like to demonstrate how to do a UNION and MINUS queries - two very helpful techniques for reporting. I can see this session benefiting new Alma Analytics users as well as those who have fairly significant experience. Hopefully we'll have time for others to share their own favorite "off-the-grid" reports!