NExpress Shared Catalog

Thursday, August 21

Printing the Pick List – Open your staff client in Internet Explorer, open the pick list and print it to a non-receipt printer. To facilitate receipt printing, Firefox and the receipt printer have a one-to-one connection.

Local Use Recorded – Tonganoxie ran across a patron who was marked VISITOR because the state was listed as K not KS. When they circulated items, they saw the message “Local Use Recorded.” Once the patron was changed from Visitor to Adult and the address was corrected, this message went away.

Problems with holds? – Diane Trinkle in Nortonville has noticed that some of the items that were in transit to her library at the time of migration did not retain their holds. Anyone else notice this?

Solution: It seems that Sirsi did not migrate the hold status for those items that were “In Transit” at the time of migration. Good thing we still have access to Sirsi (until Sept. 30). If you get items in your next courier delivery that the system doesn’t tell you who they are on hold for when you check them in, log into Sirsi and find out. This is only a temporary problem because items that were on hold at the time of migration, but were not yet in transit, seem to be fine.

Work-Around for Retaining Local Hold Availability
As you know, the Koha system does not at this time limit any holds for any reason. If there are items you want to limit to local holds, create a dummy card for your library. Then check the items you want out to the dummy account. When a patron brings the item up to check out, just check it out as you normally would. You will get the message “Item checked out to : (dummy card) Check in and check out?” Click Yes. When the item comes back, don’t check it in. Just check it back out to the dummy card. Any holds on the item will not be affected.

Director Permissions - We discovered this morning that the granular permissions for TOOLS in the Director Accounts did not migrate. Heather is in the process of fixing this issue.

Return to List when placing holds in the staff client – When a patron is placing a “HOLD” can there be a “return to search list” button somewhere on the page so that back-button doesn’t have to used when patron wants to return to original book lists?

A New Collection Code – Atchison Library requested that a new Collection Code be added for their software collection. So if you are cataloging software, use item type Media Collection, and if you want, select the collection code of Software.