[ILL-L] contemplating a change: no due date on WRS transaction

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The system is set up for using due dates on returnables, it just works better all around that way. Docline doesn't use received (for articles, at least), just shipped, but that's for that system, not for WRS,
 
Ed Helmrich
Iona College
 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Peterson, Kim A.
Sent: Wed 9/30/2009 2:49 PM
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Subject: [ILL-L] contemplating a change: no due date on WRS transaction
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One library that lends to us regularly does something that I think is a clever labor savings step: they set up the WRS transaction for returnables with a due date of "N/A" so that the WRS transaction disappears when I receive it.
 
I can't remember how they let us know the due date--I think it's indicated on the accompanying paperwork.
 
>From there we send the book out to our patron, and when patron returns item we ship it back to lender. There's no WRS transaction to update to "returned" and the lender doesn't have to "complete" the transaction.
 
What kind of problems does this create for you all? I like it, but I wonder if it will result in issues for you all that I can't foresee.
 
Comments, please. 
 
 
Kim Peterson
Director of Technical Services
St. Louis Public Library
1301 Olive St.
St. Louis, MO 63103
T: 314-539-0320
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