Titles in demand

The titles in demand feature provides information about the relation between reservations and holdings and gives an indication about the titles that have high demand. This data is generated daily, and the tool can have several areas of use, such as:

  • Detection of reservations that lacks items and can’t therefore be fulfilled

  • Getting a basis for decisions on the purchase of additional copies for popular titles

  • Getting information about how the reservations are distributed between the branches in relation to the holdings per branch

How to search for titles in demand

  1. Go to the Collections section in the main menu.

  2. Select the Titles in demand tab.

  3. Search in free text or refine the search by for example selecting a particular creator or language. See also: Search guide

  4. Limit the search results further by selecting an organisational level, if you want to.

The search results present reserved titles sorted on highest demand in relation to number of items in the selected organization using a demand score. Titles with no items and at least one reservation gets the highest demand and are presented on top of the list. You can use the demand score to filter the search result, and it is also possible to filter on titles with or titles without items.

Note that the total number of existing and ordered items are included in the calculation, except items with a status and billed items. Any reservation cooperation is disregarded in the calculation.

Trapped reservations are not included in the sum of reservations.

How to use the search result

You can sort the list on all columns except manifestation type. One click on the column Reservations gives you the most reserved manifestations first.

When you expand the rows in the search result you find the demand per pick-up branch which sometimes gives a different view or the demand, if there, for example, is no item at all available at a particular branch.

The total number of items/orders may be larger than the sum of items/orders in the expanded information, since the expanded information includes only items at the pick-up branches for the reservations.