Today was a bit of a change of pace in LUMP development – it was time to whizz up a backroom script for the librarians, allowing them to see how many modules, reading lists and different types of items were used by departments in a particular year.  On the whole this was an “old skool” CGI script that doesn’t use the LUMP XML API – just straight calls to the underlying Perl modules that wrap round the LUMP database.  This is both quick to run and quick to code, and for a simple statistics script is fine (no need for flashy JavaScript for those really).  Gary is pondering other statistics scripts we might want to produce, both derived from the existing LORLS ones and also some new ideas.  He’s going to chat to some of our librarians about those first though – no point wasting time writing code to produce information that nobody is interested in!