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Best Practices for Cataloging On Order Items

Re-posting, because it’s useful information…
So, you have the new Best Seller, but you can’t put it on the shelf until next month.
How do you catalog it so that patrons can start placing holds on the title before it hits library shelves?
The OLD cataloging specs were:
Item Subfield 7: Not for loan: Ordered
Collection: On order
Shelving Location: Cataloging
Item [...]

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Harley Highlights 1.1 Release Notes

The Upgrade has been postponed until Saturday, August 21 to give PTFS time to fix an issue with Holds, specifically with reviving the “Please return THIS BOOK to Home Library” prompt after all of the holds have been filled.  (Just a note, all of the patrons shown are fictional.)

PTFS-Master 1.1 Release Notes (.pdf)
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Harley Highlights Continued

More Bits and Pieces from the Release Notes
Reports
Bugfix to Allow User Specified Limit in SQL – This is more of a back end fix that we are excited about, but it does mean that we can run a report on your Shelflist, say for the Insurance agent or City auditor.
Patrons and Holds
Patron Batch Edit and [...]

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