[ILL-L] Does anybody do this?

[Megan Bayonet]

We use our circ system to check out ILL books.  Benefits of doing this are,
as you've said, patrons only having to check one place to see what the have
out (and saves me eleven million phone calls, since we don't have online
access to student ILL accounts).  It also allows our circ staff to see when
there are overdue books/fines and remind the patron of that when they're at
the desk.  I still generate overdue notices in CLIO on the principle that it
doesn't hurt to tell them twice...

We use Horizon circ software so this next bit may not be 100% correct to
your system.  When I check out an ILL book to a patron, I set up a "Quick
Add" bib record for the item - just title, author and barcode.  We use the
CLIO barcode for our ILL items.  At least in our system, this makes it easy
for staff to pick ILL items from our items when looking at a patron's record
because the barcodes have a different number of non-zero digits.  When the
patron brings the book back, the circ staff simply checks it in and the
record is deleted. 


Megan Bayonet
Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
mbayonet at mbc.edu
540-887-7317

-----Original Message-----
From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Tom Hurray
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:20 PM
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] Does anybody do this?

I am a first time poster:

I was asked by my supervisor whether anyone else is checking out ILL books
using their local system so the item appears on the patrons record.  That
way the patron doesn't have to go to two places to check what items they may
have out, which we feel would be more helpful to our patrons, and we would
probably prefer.  Has anyone tried this and/or have been successful with it?
What kinds of issues are involved?  We are using Millennium circ.  and my
ILL software, CLIO, can generate its own barcodes of the ILL no. (....or
have you found it best to just direct the patrons to check their ILLIAD
account?  Has their been problems explaining to patrons to go to two
different places?)

Thanks very much in advance for any input you can provide.

--
Thomas Hurray
Evening/Weekend Supervisor
& Interlibrary Loan
Cleveland Marshall College of Law Library
(216) 523-7396
thomas.hurray at law.csuohio.edu
	



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