[Evergreen-general] Best Practices Question

[Deanna Frazee]

We had a similar situation, so we created an item status of "staff access."  When staff set books aside for upcoming programs, they scan them and change them to this status.  Our "staff access" books are unavailable for holds and invisible to the OPAC to cut down on patron confusion.

Running them through check in after the program resets them to "available."  Of course, we do occasionally have someone forget to check the books back in after the program so we periodically run a report of items that have been in the "staff access" status for more than 45 days.

Deanna Frazee
Director of Library Services
Killeen Public Library
City of Killeen, Texas
254-501-8995 (office)
254-501-7704 (fax)
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Subject: [Evergreen-general] Best Practices Question

Hi,
  I was wondering what best practices are for the following scenario: a youth services librarian is preparing for a program and needs to put aside 10 books about cats. They don't want the books to appear on a pullist while they have them. We don't want them to check the books out because it would generate a false circulation statistic. We advise them to place a holds on the books they need, but is there a better way to take these books out of circulation without generating a false statistic?

Thank you,
Scott


Scott Thomas
Chief Executive Officer / Director
Scranton Public Library
500 Vine Street
Scranton, PA 18509-3298
570-348-3000 x3011
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