http://www.brooklinelibrary.org/about/rfid
Click the link above to see Michael Wolfsey's slide show!
Click the link above to see Michael Wolfsey's slide show!
Friday, May 20, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Holds in III Millenium
http://staff.minlib.net/content/iii-holds-system-reference-documents
Click on the above and log in. You will learn so much about the way holds work in Millenium that it will knock your socks off! Literally!
Marialice and I both loved the training with Susan Saul!
Did you know:
email holds are generated at 11PM at night?
If you place an item specific hold as a staff member on something that is in this library, nothing will happen? The hold will just sit there?
The logic on item specific hold filling is entirely different from the logic for bib level holds? Item specific hold logic is as follows: Goes to the item requested for three days. If that doesn't work, it goes alphabetically through the system starting with A. That's right! So Acton, Arlington, etc.
Whereas, if you place hold copy returned soonest requests, the machine says....hmmm...request is for pickup at Waltham, Let's see if Waltham has one....and, in fact, even if someone at Stow, let's say returns a Waltham copy, that copy will go to fill the Waltham hold. Then, it goes out to the library's branches (if the library has branches), then it goes randomly through the network to available copies.
Therefore, unless you really need that specific copy.....i.e. there are several volumes attached to the record or several years of the Fodor's Guide and you need year 2011, etc, it is always better to use that 'hold copy returned soonest' request.
Did you know that 80% of the requests in our system are placed using the WEbOPAC from a Non MLN Pc, and with very few exceptions, these are title level requests?
Sadly, with item level holds, when we are processing the Clear Holdshelf.....even if we don't find the request, the system moves it along....so the item might trigger a hold or go in transit, even if in reality this is not the case. This is why bib level holds are best whenever possible!
Click on the above and log in. You will learn so much about the way holds work in Millenium that it will knock your socks off! Literally!
Marialice and I both loved the training with Susan Saul!
Did you know:
email holds are generated at 11PM at night?
If you place an item specific hold as a staff member on something that is in this library, nothing will happen? The hold will just sit there?
The logic on item specific hold filling is entirely different from the logic for bib level holds? Item specific hold logic is as follows: Goes to the item requested for three days. If that doesn't work, it goes alphabetically through the system starting with A. That's right! So Acton, Arlington, etc.
Whereas, if you place hold copy returned soonest requests, the machine says....hmmm...request is for pickup at Waltham, Let's see if Waltham has one....and, in fact, even if someone at Stow, let's say returns a Waltham copy, that copy will go to fill the Waltham hold. Then, it goes out to the library's branches (if the library has branches), then it goes randomly through the network to available copies.
Therefore, unless you really need that specific copy.....i.e. there are several volumes attached to the record or several years of the Fodor's Guide and you need year 2011, etc, it is always better to use that 'hold copy returned soonest' request.
Did you know that 80% of the requests in our system are placed using the WEbOPAC from a Non MLN Pc, and with very few exceptions, these are title level requests?
Sadly, with item level holds, when we are processing the Clear Holdshelf.....even if we don't find the request, the system moves it along....so the item might trigger a hold or go in transit, even if in reality this is not the case. This is why bib level holds are best whenever possible!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Decertified MA libraries
Non-Certified Municipalities & Libraries
The municipalities below are not certified for State Aid to Public Libraries. There are 3 reasons why a municipality & its library may not be certified for State Aid to Public Libraries: its library may not have applied, its library may have been inegligible to apply, or its library did not receive a waiver of the Municipal Appropriation Requirement. Any municipality that does not have library service is automatically ineligible to apply for certification.Municipalities that did not apply, or were ineligible, were not certified as of January 1, 2011. Municipalities that are denied a MAR Waiver will be not certified as of February 3, 2011.
- Alford - did not apply - last applied FY1988
- Bridgewater - did not apply - last applied FY2008
- Fitchburg - did not apply - last applied FY2008
- Hancock - did not apply - last applied FY1975
- Hawley - ineligible - no library service
- Monroe - did not apply - has never applied
- New Ashford - ineligible - no library service
- Norton - did not apply - last applied FY2010
- Savoy - did not apply - has never applied
- Tyringham - did not apply - last applied 1961
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Thursday, May 5th No Laptops After 1PM
Questions? See Kate, Laura, or Deb.
To sing on staff day?
The Check Ins and the Check outs
Circulation’ Dreamin (to the tune of California Dreamin’)
All the bins are down
And the bins are gray
I’ve been for a walk
Down to Classroom A
I’d be shelving book holds
If I wasn’t in A
Circulation’ dreamin
On a Waltham day
Stopped into a book drop
I passed at Rear Circ way
Oh’ I got down on my knees
And I’ll get up I pray
You know the patrons like the cards
They know thyey’re gonna stay
Circulation dreamin’
On a Waltham day
All the bins are down
And the bins are gray
I’ve been for a walk
Down to Classroom A
If I didn’t stamp cards
I could be in A
Circulation dreamin’
On a Waltham day
Circulation dreamin’
On such a Waltham day
Circulation dreamin’
On such a Waltham day
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