[Evergreen-general] Best Practices Question

[PaILS]

In the past I have recommended a bifurcated workflow –

  *   For locally held items, change the use a shelving location (“Children’s Staff Office” or similar) – a status would also work but that would be a consortial setting and not something the local library can typically set up. (The definition of “local” might vary between a library and system depending on system agreements & staff permissions.)
  *   For external items, check them out on a library card. This way the owning library’s items don’t get edited by non-affiliated staff and the item moves normally through the circulation process and generates a transit home when it’s checked in.

Happy Friday everyone!

Katie Greenleaf Martin
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Integrated Library System (PaILS)
(717) 873-9461
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You could also mark these books not holdable for the duration of your program, then change them back to holdable later.

Kathryn

Kathryn Riedener
Collections and Resources Coordinator
Pioneer Library System
2557 State Route 21
Canandaigua, NY 14424

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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


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