[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] bookings module - media bookings

[Tara Robertson]

Thanks! That's how we did things with our manual system: the media booker
would check stuff out and put it on a shelf at circ.

I'd love to hear from anyone else who is using bookings and what your
workarounds are.

Thanks!
Tara

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Gordana Vitez <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca>wrote:

>  You're absolutely right. It is a real pain. To get around this, our
> media point people sign out the reserved items in advance to the
> instructor. So if it's a late pickup, it doesn't affect the booking.
>
> Again, not perfect, but it seems to be working for us.
>
> Gordana
>
> >>> Tara Robertson <information.detective at gmail.com> 1/24/2012 1:44 PM >>>
>
> Thanks Gordana,
>
> Not being able to edit an existing booking seems to be the biggest pain
> point, and might be a deal breaker for us. How do you deal with this?
>
> Yesterday we had a faculty member who was picking up a booking late (they
> had 8 films, two of which were not ours, so staff had created a brief bib
> so they would be in our system). The staff person had to cancel all 8
> bookings, create two new brief bibs and then recreate 8 bookings, capture
> the items, then check them out to the faculty member.
>
> Do you allow people to pick up bookings late?
>
> Thanks again,
> Tara
>
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