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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bahnschrift SemiBold Condensed",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Deanna Frazee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Killeen Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">City of Killeen, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Evergreen-general <evergreen-general-bounces@list.evergreen-ils.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Thomas via Evergreen-general<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 25, 2022 9:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Scott Thomas <sthomas@albright.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Evergreen-general] Best Practices Question<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 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?<br>
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Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Scott Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Chief Executive Officer / Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Scranton Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">500 Vine Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Scranton, PA 18509-3298<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">570-348-3000 x3011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sthomas@albright.org">sthomas@albright.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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