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Looking at our stats for January, renewals and fines paid through Vega are going to stat group 0, while holds placed through Vega appear still to be going to stat group 800. So, it doesn't look like everything Vega-related is going to 0, either.
We, too, would appreciate the ability to assign a single stat group unique to all things Vega. As it is, because group 0 also includes unneeded no-location stats, we have to do some stat-group-splicing in Excel every month after running our Decision Center reports to make sure we’re accounting for Vega renewals in our total circulation numbers whilst avoiding any group 0 checkouts, which are obviously not from Vega. This inconvenience is frustrating and not something we care to have to do every month for the foreseeable future.
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We just had an instance of a staff member frustrated when they searched Vega for a children’s picture book listed as “Available” at their branch, couldn’t find it on the expected shelf in the building, and then saw in Sierra that the item in question’s status was actually “In Library Use Only.”
To locate that information in Vega, they had to open first the Edition section and then that edition’s details section to view item status. While the individual item status is also visible in the side drawer if the user clicks on the owning location link, not all users know or remember that that’s another option.
In this particular case, the “In Library Use” item was the only copy of the title we own at the moment, but the mere absence of a “Hold” button was not enough to make it clear to someone already in the branch (who therefore thought they could just go grab the “Available” item right away without needing to place a hold) that there were actually no circulating copies.
We can remind staff about the item status details visible in the fewer-clicks-requiring side drawer and what “Available” presently means in Vega. However, we would still like there to be more granularity in the broad availability categories beyond “Available” (which users interpret specifically as available for immediate checkout, i.e. “Check Shelf”) and “Unavailable” (which users interpret as completely inaccessible, e.g. missing/billed/withdrawn/etc.).
For us, setting the “In Library Use Only” status to display as “Available” in Vega seems the lesser of two evils.
While checked-out-but-holdable and on-the-shelf-and-checkoutable are also very different kinds of “Available,” particularly to users on site, at least having a third “In Library Use Only” category for immediately-viewable-but-not-circulating materials would minimize confusion for rollups/tabs where an owning location’s only viable copies are neither circulating nor inaccessible.