Items

Our item data includes millions of items held by all 7 library services. We are splitting out these exports into one file per service, to make them more manageable. Plus, because we use GitHub for storage, there is a 100Mb file limit!

Summary file

A summary file includes counts of items, aggregated by item type, and library service. In this case we have one summary file for all services.

• View items summary data

Field	Decription	Example
Authority	The authority holding the item	Bath and North East Somerset
Item type	The item type	Adult Fiction
Items	The total number of items	10
Issues	The total number of issues across those items	100
Renewals	The total number of renewals across those items	100

Detail file

For more details use the full details download. This is split out to give a file per library service.

• View Bath and North East Somerset Items

• View Bristol Items

• View Dorset Items

• View North Somerset Items

• View Poole Items

• View Somerset Items

• View South Gloucestershire Items

Field	Decription	Example
Catalogue flex key	A reference to the catalogue key, to match with a title record	i9780261670501
Item ID	The ID for the item, also the printed barcode found on the item	1804779308
Authority	The authority holding the item	Bristol
Library	The library holding the item	Henleaze
Item type	The item type	Adult Fiction
Date created	The date the item was created in the system	2015-03-14
Price	A price for the item (not always reliable)	3.99
Issues	The total number of issues for the item	8
Renewals	The total number of renewals for the item	6