The archive and materials from the Beginning Cataloging: First Steps to Becoming a Fantastic Copy Cataloger webinar have been posted online. I’ve linked to several different ways to “experience” the webinar, including viewing it online, listening to it, and viewing it through Blackboard Collaborate. Please let me know if you have any questions about cataloging or accessing the webinar.
Image Credit: “Peeps Parade” by Flickr user bgolub under a Creative Commons license.
The 2012 ALA Youth Media Award Winners have been announced at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Dallas. The full list of award winners has been released by ALA and information about the awards can be found on the ALA website. You can even watch the recording of the announcements! Here’s some of the award winners, with links to them in the NExpress collection (if available). Feel free to use and adapt this post for your library website!
The full list of award winners has been released by ALA and information about the awards can be found on the ALA website. You can even watch the recording of the announcements!
It is easy to see how an item could be scanned at Check In twice at a library — you have a stack of books, you’re not sure if they’ve been checked in, so you scan them. Only to realize that they’ve already been scanned and are In Transit to another library to fill a hold. Unfortunately, that second scan into the Check In box can cause a few problems:
So, how can you “safely” see the status of a stack of books?
We will share this information with ByWater, in hopes that we can get this fixed or develop a “Check Status” option that does NOTHING to the transfers, holds, or overall status of an item.
Until then, if you wonder about the status of an item in hand, scan it at the Search the Catalog box, not Check In.
