We hope that this document will help inform Alliance members as they think about new ways that Summit could provide data for the purposes of developing improved services and informing decisions made by member libraries and the consortium.
-Summit Catalog Committee Data Harvesting Working Group 1/31/2007
Bibliographic Data
- View records via Summit web and telnet OPAC interfaces
- Z39.50 access to Summit catalog
- View MARC record capability in web OPAC
Holdings Data
Circulation Data
- Macro-level sharing materials statistics on Summit borrowing (explanation on source of statistics)
- Local Summit lending statistics available through normal circulation statistics functions on local III systems by using Summit ptypes and member library location codes; see: Summit info ; III Manual p. 103420
- Local Summit borrowing statistics available on the local III system by site or by title; reports available for current month or previous month; reports by title can be presented by title, author, call number or SCAT table; see
Summit info ; III manual p. 105051
- Summit circulation reports often used in Annual Account Reconciliation; see III manual p. 103413
- Raw Summit transaction data may be downloaded from Summit or local systems; see III Manual pp. 106032, 105584, 106028
User Interface Data
- Patron searches : which indexes are being used: author, title, keyword, subject
- All aspects of the “analyze patron searches” functions on local systems are available for the Summit system, including search phrases and the local site from which the search was conducted. See III manual p. 103354