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In the Library function: Generate statistical reports that indicate the total number of resources in our collection, divided by the number of resources checked out.

Populi is set up to automatically generate a number of statistical reports, but one that I need is one that tells us 1) how many resources we have, 2) how many (and which resources) have actually been checked out, and 3) a ratio automatically calculated from these two numbers. 

 

It would be great if our library had a "usage ratio" of 100 percent (meaning that every one of our resources were checked out). 

If we have a low usage ratio (a small percentage of resources that were ever needed or checked out), that tells us that we need to weed our shelves from unwanted books.  I also need to know, specifically, which titles are unused during a given period of time (per year or since our inception).  If Populi were set up to give us this information, its value would sky-rocket.

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