[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 🌲[Evergreen] RE: deleting lost and missing items

[Diane Disbro]

Cathy, I haven't heard about the consortium making this decision. If it
did, the time period must be longer than seven years if Jake's materials
haven't been deleted before he gets to them at seven years.

We have been talking about this at Scenic in conjunction with patrons
bringing back materials after they have been lost for years and expecting
the bills to be voided. If the items are no longer in the catalog, it is
questionable whether we want to add them in again. If we void the bills and
don't add the item, we are out of $$$. We may need a policy about when it
will be too late to return items and have bills voided. Thus-------I'm
getting input about how long to wait before cleaning up the catalog. (I
loathe and detest having patron and material records hanging around when
the patrons and materials are long gone. It's like having an unending case
of indigestion.)

All suggestions are welcome.

Thank you.
Diane Disbro
Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator
Union Branch
Scenic Regional Library
308 Hawthorne Drive
Union, MO     63084
(636) 583-3224
ddisbro at scenicregional.org
*Currently reading: Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and
Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery*



On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:54 AM Cathy Dame <cdame at lebanon-laclede.lib.mo.us>
wrote:

> Am I way off or did we agree as a consortium about how long items remained
> missing or lost?  I thought there was a set time when the system
> automatically deleted these items.
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> Cathy
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> *From:* evergreen-bounces at lists.mobiusconsortium.org <
> evergreen-bounces at lists.mobiusconsortium.org> *On Behalf Of *
> jjohnson at webbcitylibrary.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:49 AM
> *To:* Ron Eifert <reifert at sikeston.lib.mo.us>
> *Cc:* ME list serv <evergreen at lists.mobiusconsortium.org>; Evergreen
> Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> *Subject:* Re: 🌲[Evergreen]deleting lost and missing items
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> 3 years marked missing
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> 7 years lost(still checked out)
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> Jake Johnson
> Library Director
> Webb City Public Library
> 101 S. Liberty St
> Webb City, MO 64870
> 417-673-4326
> jjohnson at webbcitylibrary.org
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> On Feb 13, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Ron Eifert <reifert at sikeston.lib.mo.us>
> wrote:
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> Typically, they are deleted as soon as a replacement is received. Other
> than that, we make the decision whether to purge or replace after we do an
> inventory. One of the best things about the upcoming software upgrades is
> that an inventory should be easier to perform.
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> Ron Eifert
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> Director
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> Sikeston Public Library
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> *From:* evergreen-bounces at lists.mobiusconsortium.org on behalf of Diane
> Disbro <ddisbro at scenicregional.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:15 AM
> *To:* ME list serv; Evergreen Discussion Group
> *Subject:* 🌲[Evergreen] deleting lost and missing items
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> Good morning -
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> How long do you keep lost and missing items in your catalog before
> deleting them?
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> Thank you.
>
> Diane Disbro
>
> Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator
>
> Union Branch
>
> Scenic Regional Library
>
> 308 Hawthorne Drive
>
> Union, MO     63084
>
> (636) 583-3224
>
> ddisbro at scenicregional.org
>
> *Currently reading: Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and
> Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery*
>
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