Special reports

As a convenience to WALS libraries, some reports are produced by staff and made available as finished reports.  These reports typcally include data for all of the WALS libraries.

When completed, these reports are made available as here via links to the documents.

2024

2024-2023 Year to Date Circulation - A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage c hange. Includes tabs for 2023-2022.

2023

2023-2022 Year to Date Circulation - A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage change. Includes tabs for 2022-2021.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2023)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
  • Top 30 Dewy Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collecitons, ranked by  circulation and count of items, which each library having their own tab.
    • These tables show the top 30 Dewey call number categories, ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections. Items are selected based on Item Cat1 of BOOK and Item Cat2 of ADULT (for Adult collections) and JUVENILE (for Children's collections). 
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count

2022

2022-2021 Year to Date Circulation -  A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage change. Includes tabs for 2021-2020.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2022)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
  • Top 30 Dewy Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collecitons, ranked by  circulation and count of items, which each library having their own tab.
    • These tables show the top 30 Dewey call number categories, ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections. Items are selected based on Item Cat1 of BOOK and Item Cat2 of ADULT (for Adult collections) and JUVENILE (for Children's collections). 
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count

2021

2021-2020 Year to Date Circulation - A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage change. Includes tabs for 2020-2019.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2021)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
  • Top 30 Dewy Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collecitons, ranked by  circulation and count of items, which each library having their own tab.
    • These tables show the top 30 Dewey call number categories, ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections. Items are selected based on Item Cat1 of BOOK and Item Cat2 of ADULT (for Adult collections) and JUVENILE (for Children's collections). 
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count

2021 Top Books, by User Library - Most popular checkouts, based on User Library, for Fiction and Nonfiction. Each library has a tab.

2020

2020-2019 Year-to-Date Circulation - A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage change. Includes tabs for 2019-2018.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2020)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's Collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
  • Top 30 Dewey Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
    • These tables show the top 30 Dewey call number categories, ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections. Items are selected based on Item Cat1 of BOOK and Item Cat2 of ADULT (for Adult collections) and JUVENILE (for Children's collections). 
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count

2020 Top Books, by User Library - Most popular checkouts, based on User Library, for fiction and nonfiction. Each library has a tab.

2019

2019-2018 Year-to-Date Circulation - A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage change. Includes tabs for 2018-2017.

Withdrawn by Item Cat1 - Items withdrawn in the first quarter of 2019 (1/1/2019-4/1/2019), split by Item Cat1 and paged by library.

Withdrawn by Home Location - Items withdrawn in the first quarter of 2019 (1/1/2019-4/1/2019), split by Home Location and paged by library.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2019)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's collections, ranked by circulation and count  of items
  • Top 30 Dewey Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
    • These tables show the top thirty Dewey call number categories ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections for Item Type (for Adult collections) BOOK, BOOK-LH, and BOOK-NH, and (for Children's collections) JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, JBOOK-NH.
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count.

Favorite Author Club Stats - Snapshot of statistics of the Favorite Author Club (autoplacement of holds for patrons for highly popular authors across the system), as of January 2020.

  • Total Followers by Format - A PDF showing each author's total number of followers, broken out by format, across the sytem.
  • Popular Authors by Library - An Excel document, with a tab for each library, showing the number of followers for each author at each library.
  • Total Followers by Library - A PDF document of the total number of individual users signed up for the Favorite Author Club, by pickup library.

2018

2018-2017 Year-to-Date Circulation - A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage change. Includes tabs for 2017-2016.

NetLender/NetBorrower -- This report shows which libraries send more items to fill holds than they recieve for their own holds (NetLender), and which libraries recieve more items than they send (NetBorrower). In addition, it shows the amount of circulation that occurs from the owning library's items, and the amount that comes from other libraries.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2018)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's collections, ranked by circulation and count  of items
  • Top 30 Dewey Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
    • These tables show the top thirty Dewey call number categories ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections for Item Type (for Adult collections) BOOK, BOOK-LH, and BOOK-NH, and (for Children's collections) JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, JBOOK-NH.
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count.

2017

2017-2016 Year-to-Date Circulation - A comparison of each month's total circ with the same month of the previous year, with a percentage change. Includes tabs for comparing 2016-2015.

NetLender/NetBorrower -- In addition to showing net lender and net borrower information, this report also shows the amount of circulation that occurs from the owning library's collection and the amount that comes from other libraries.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2017)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's collections, ranked by circulation and count  of items
  • Top 30 Dewey Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
    • These tables show the top thirty Dewey call number categories ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections for Item Type (for Adult collections) BOOK, BOOK-LH, and BOOK-NH, and (for Children's collections) JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, JBOOK-NH.
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count.

2017 Most Popular Titles - A ranked list of the most popular Adult titles checked out in 2017; renewals are not counted towards the total checkout, only the initial check out.

2016

NetLender/NetBorrower -- In addition to showing net lender and net borrower information, this report also shows the amount of circulation that occurs from the owining library's collection and the amount that comes from other libraries.

Circulation by UserCat1, Resident-Nonresident: There are annual reports for each Winnefox county, with a separate sheet for each library, for the resident-Nonresident circulation statistics needed for the state annual report.

2016-2015 Year-to-Date Circulation:

  • 2016-2015 Year-to-Date Circulation This YTD report shows the totals for each library with a comparison to the previous year and the percentage change. For previous years, including the comparion from 2014-2013 and 2013-2012, please see the 2015-2014 document.

2016 Most Popular Titles

  • 2016 Top Circ Titles - This report ranks, by total circulation across the entire system, the most popular titles for 2016, for Adult Books, Adult DVDs, Juvy Books, and Juvy DVDs.

Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2016)

  • Top 30 Dewey Categories System-wide, for Adult and Children's collections, ranked by circulation and count  of items
  • Top 30 Dewey Categories of individual libraries, for Adult collections, ranked by circulation and count of items
    • These tables show the top thirty Dewey call number categories ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections for Item Type (for Adult collections) BOOK, BOOK-LH, and BOOK-NH, and (for Children's collections) JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, JBOOK-NH.
    • Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) are excluded, but biography collections with call numbers beginning with B or BIO are included, and added into the total 920 Dewey Range.
    • Item counts for the libraries of Brandon and Campbellsport are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey; any circ in item categoreis in those libraries comes from items owned by other libraries.
    • For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections. Red text indicates that the category has high circulation, but is not in the top 30 categories by item count.

2015

  • Percentage of Circulation from Renewals -- From Aug 5th 2014-Aug 5th 2015, percentage of total circ that comes from renewals. Two charts: one by library, one by % (high to low).
  • 2015 Most Popular Titles -- This report ranks, by total number of checkouts for all items, the most popular items checked out across the entire system for 2015, regardless of owning library or checkout library.
  • Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2015)
    • Top 30 Dewey Categories, Ranked by Circulation and Count (System)
    • Top 30 Dewey Categories, Ranked by Circulation and Count (per Library)
    • These tables show the top thirty Dewey call number categories ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections for Item Type (for Adult collections) BOOK, BOOK-LH, and BOOK-NH, and (for Children's collections) JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, JBOOK-NH.
      Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Item counts for the libraries of Campbellsport and Coloma are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey.
      Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) is also excluded.
      B and BIO collections are INCLUDED, and added to the total 920 Dewey range.
      For both the Adult and Children's tabs, subjects that are in the top ten circulating subjects are highlighted, with the same color highlighting the subject on the count side of the report, to indicate which items are highly circulating and large collections.
  • Circulation by UserCat1, Resident-Nonresident: There are annual reports for each Winnefox county, with a separate sheet for each library, for the resident-Nonresident circulation statistics needed for the state annual report.

2014

  • Total Circulation: Lists each library's total circulation for 2014, as a single number totalling all items and all users. 
  • Circulation by Item Owner Lists the total circulation of each library's items, split out by the checkout library (i.e., the total number of checkouts for Berlin's items at Berlin, the total checkouts of Berlin's items at Campbellsport, etc.)
  • Circulation by UserCat1, Resident-Nonresident There are annual reports for each Winnefox county, with a separate sheet for each library, for the resident-Nonresident circulation statistics needed for the state annual report.
  • 2014 Net Borrower/Lender Report

  • Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2014)

    • Top 30 Dewey Categories, Ranked by Circulation and Count 
      These tables show the top thirty Dewey call number categories ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections for Item Type (for Adult collections) BOOK, BOOK-LH, and BOOK-NH, and (for Children's collections) JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, JBOOK-NH.
      Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Item counts for the libraries of Campbellsport and Coloma are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey.
      Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) is also excluded.
      B and BIO collections are INCLUDED, and added to the total 920 Dewey range.
      In both the rank by circulation and the rank by count tables, subjects that are in the top thirty for both Adult and Children's collections are highlighted.
      To see an individual library’s circulation and item count per Dewey range, and the complete ranking of all Dewey ranges by circulation and by item count please see: Circulation and Count by Dewey per Library

2013

  • Net Lender/Borrower Report
    In addition to showing net lender and net borrower information, this report also shows the amount of circulation that occurs from the owining library's collection and the amount that comes from other libraries.
  • Circ -- Average By Hours and Users Report
    This report includes average circ by number of open hours per library; average circ by number of active patrons; number of unique users (who checked out at least one item) by Checkout library; average number of circs for those unique users.
  • Circulation by UserCat1, Resident-Nonresident
    There are annual reports for each Winnefox county, with a separate sheet for each library, for the resident-Nonresident circulation statistics needed for the state annual report.
  • Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Children's, by Dewey Range (2013)
    • Top 30 Dewey Categories, Ranked by Circulation and Count
      These tables show the top thirty Dewey call number categories ranked by total item circulation and total item counts, split out by Adult and Children's collections for Item Type (for Adult collections) BOOK, BOOK-LH, and BOOK-NH, and (for Children's collections) JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, JBOOK-NH.
      Circulation is based on what was checked out at each library, not the item’s owning library; the report may therefore show circulation in an area of the collection where the library does not own any items, based on the item count column. Item counts for the libraries of Campbellsport and Coloma are excluded, as those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey.
      Any nonfiction call number beginning with a prefix (ex. +, J, PB, etc) is also excluded.
      B and BIO collections are INCLUDED, and added to the total 920 Dewey range.
      In both the rank by circulation and the rank by count tables, subjects that are in the top thirty for both Adult and Children's collections are highlighted.
      To see an individual library’s circulation and item count per Dewey range, and the complete ranking of all Dewey ranges by circulation and by item count (also split out by Adult and Children's collections), please see the main 2013 Circulation by Dewey report, available here: Circulation and Count of Books, Adult and Juvenile, by Dewey Range (2013)

2012

2011

  • Fond du Lac County
  • Green Lake County
  • Marquette County
  • Waushara County
  • WInnebago County
  • Count and circulation (2011) of books, adult and juvenile, by Dewey breakouts
    The Dewey report is based on the Item types--BOOK, BOOK-LH and BOOK-NH for adult, and JBOOK, JBOOK-LH, and JBOOK-NH for juvenile.
    The circulation is based on what was checked out at the library.  Since that material may have come from another library, the report may show circulation in a Dewey area where the library doesn't own any titles.  There is a description for each Dewey breakout.
    The report shows the counts and circulation for all of the WALS libraries.  It has been formatted for printing a single library at a time.  Use the print preview to determine the pages needed for just your library.
    The spreadsheet includes a "Top 30" for both adult and juvenile Dewey circulation and item counts.
    The report EXCLUDES adult nonfiction for Campbellsport and juvenile for Coloma because those libraries use broad categories rather than Dewey for those parts of their collection.
    The report also EXCLUDES any nonfiction call number that starts with a letter rather than an actual dewey number:  The prefixes +, J, PB, WI, for example.
    The report DOES include B and BIO.  These were added to the 920 Dewey range.
  • Circulation by Owner of the Item (Net Lender/Net Borrower)

Circulation Trends, 2005-2014 by Broad Category of Material

  • This report shows each library's circulation of books, CDs, DVDs, etc., over the nine year period from 2005-2014. Each library's highest number of circulations in each category is indicated with red text on a red background.