provide insight of user engagement(cutting down overdue) & provides usage statistic for staff.

This would be so helpful in determining the actual popularity of an item. Since we turned on automatic renewals, it's hard to know whether an item that checked out 10 times in a year was checked out to 3 patrons or 10 patrons, which affects how many replacement copies or copies of future titles that I'm going to buy.

I previously shared a similar idea in Idea Lab, and I would like to see the following enhancements: adding Year-To-Date Renewals, Previous Year-To-Date Renewals, and Lifetime Renewals count fields to item records in the Source & Acquisitions view, as well as including these fields in Item Reports within Simply Reports.

From an analytical standpoint, these additional fields would significantly improve our ability to analyze circulation data and make more informed decisions for targeted purchasing of new materials. Currently, renewals are being counted as regular circulations, which skews our data. We observe customers frequently logging into their accounts to renew items multiple times a week or renewing lost or misplaced items repeatedly. This behavior inflates circulation numbers, distorting our understanding of actual usage patterns.

Introducing these count fields would provide more accurate data, helping us and third-party vendors like CollectionHQ and LibraryIQ to generate better insights and recommendations. Without accurate renewal counts, our data remains incomplete and our purchasing strategies less effective.

She is right. I want to count renewals in my reports for statistical purposes, however, renewals in the item record would help in deciding whether to replace an item or not.

I have written many custom reports to weed out renewals from stats since it is the first time circulation that is important for understanding usage of material. It would be a game changer to have the renewals count as a separate field in the item.