Your electronic gate sensors are fundamentally flawed for accurate grant reporting. They struggle with directional flow—a patron entering, using the restroom, and exiting often registers as two distinct visits, artificially inflating your usage metrics. Worse, staff members often forget to badge out, skewing the daily service desk staffing ratios. You are reporting data based on a system that constantly forces the Director of Operations to manually scrub outliers and guess at the true circulation data.

When the sensor count spikes, you have no immediate context. Was it a highly successful children's storytime or simply a rush of students using the free Wi-Fi? Gate counts cannot differentiate between general circulation foot traffic and high-value reference desk interactions. This lack of specific, contextualized data makes justifying budget increases for specialized programs incredibly difficult when the data is just a single, meaningless aggregate number.