[Evergreen-general] Best Practices Question

[Morgan, Michele]

Scott,

Another option would be to create a Shelving Location for this purpose with
a name like "Youth Services Program". The Holdable attribute of the
Shelving Location can be set to False to prevent the items from showing on
the pull list (or capturing holds).

The items would need to be batch updated to change them to the temporary
shelving location, and then restored to their original shelving location
after the program.

Hope this helps!

Michele
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Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst
North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
mmorgan at noblenet.org



On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 11:14 AM Deanna Frazee via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Deanna Frazee
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> Director of Library Services
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> Killeen Public Library
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> City of Killeen, Texas
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> 254-501-8995 (office)
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> 254-501-7704 (fax)
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> dfrazee at killeentexas.gov
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> www.killeentexas.gov
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> *From:* Evergreen-general <
> evergreen-general-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> *On Behalf Of *Scott
> Thomas via Evergreen-general
> *Sent:* Friday, February 25, 2022 9:49 AM
> *To:* evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org
> *Cc:* Scott Thomas <sthomas at albright.org>
> *Subject:* [Evergreen-general] Best Practices Question
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> 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
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> Scott Thomas
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> Chief Executive Officer / Director
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> Scranton Public Library
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> 500 Vine Street
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> Scranton, PA 18509-3298
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> 570-348-3000 x3011
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> sthomas at albright.org
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