[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Question about putting books on display

[Brian Herzog]

I'm curious how other Evergreen libraries handle marking books that  
are on display.  For us, "Display" is a copy location that we manually  
mark for books on display, and then manually switch back to their real  
copy location when the books come off display.

The problem is that we miss a lot of "Display" books when they get  
returned, and so they just go back on the normal shelves instead of  
back on display.  Pretty soon, the catalog no longer matches our  
shelves, which is a problem.  We've tried to clean things up a bit  
using Copy Buckets, but there are always items that slip through the  
cracks and produce inaccuracies.

Our previous ILS (SirsiDynix Horizon) had a Display item status,  
instead of copy location.  The benefit to that method was that, once a  
book marked "Display" was returned, the system automatically removed  
the "Display" designation so that it could be shelved and the catalog  
would be accurate.

If you have any best practices or a solution to this, I would really  
appreciate hearing them.  Thanks.

Brian Herzog
Head of Reference
Chelmsford Public Library
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC)