# 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](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_summary.csv)

| 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](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_banes.csv)
* [View Bristol Items](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_bristol.csv)
* [View Dorset Items](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_dorset.csv)
* [View North Somerset Items](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_northsomerset.csv)
* [View Poole Items](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_poole.csv)
* [View Somerset Items](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_somerset.csv)
* [View South Gloucestershire Items](https://github.com/LibrariesWest/opendata/blob/master/catalogue/items_southglos.csv)

| 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              |


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