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The Reports Page

Reports in the left sidebar is where the whole service's figures live: "the figures for everything you hold, ready to copy into an accreditation return or an annual report."

Every workspace has it. Some sections are archivists' and admins' work and are hidden from reviewers and volunteers rather than offered and refused.


Choosing a period

A picker at the top offers Everything (the default), 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, A year, and Choose dates for a From/To range.

Most of what the page counts is counted however long ago it arrived, so only the sections that can honour a period do. The one period-bound section sits at the top under the period's own name.


What's on the page

SectionWhat it tells you
In this periodWhat arrived and what was done in the period you chose
Questions asked of your collectionsExplore use over the period, month by month, with credits
Everything you hold, however long agoThe lifetime figures that follow
What you holdHeadline counts of accessions, records and collections
What kind of materialHoldings broken down by material and format type
Described and checkedHow far description and checking have got
How much is describedDescription coverage, and the records that fall short
Who can see itHoldings by access condition
SizesExtent added up unit by unit, with Where it's held beneath
Accessions not yet completedThe cataloguing backlog, as extent rather than a count of records
Dates coveredThe date span of the holdings
AccessionsAccession counts
Records to decide aboutItems waiting on a sensitivity decision
Closed and restricted materialWhat is closed or restricted, and what is lapsed or opening soon
Due for reviewEverything somebody said they would look at again
DeaccessionsWhat has left the archive, with the decision
Extent accessioned, by yearExtent taken in, year by year
Records filed under a reference that doesn't existA work queue of orphaned references
Two records sharing one referenceDuplicate references to settle
How these figures are countedEvery method statement on the page, in reading order, with the date it was prepared

Deaccessioned material is left out of the holdings figures, and the page says in words how much was left out.


Getting the figures out

Download these figures at the top right produces a spreadsheet of the whole page, honouring the period you chose. Several sections carry their own Download these figures or Download this list button for that section alone.

The method statements travel with the spreadsheet, so a figure never arrives somewhere without the sentence saying what it counts.


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