Hi Dan, I probably should have clarified my language as well. We capture reservations; however, we still have the same issues with "late pickups" and have to taken to capturing and checking out at the time the pickup is expected. Thanks! Gordana
>>> "Tina Ji (Project Sitka)" <[email protected]> 1/25/2012 12:07 AM >>> Quoting Dan Scott <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:14:23PM -0800, Tara Robertson wrote: >> 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. > > For the case of late checkouts, are you capturing the resources first? A > few months ago, after working with one of our libraries to resolve the > same problem - or so I thought - I wrote the following: "bookings are > supposed to be captured (under Bookings -> Capture Resources) before > they're checked out - idea being that the "capture" indicates that the > item has been brought to the special reservations/bookings area from > wherever it might normally live elsewhere in the library. Once the item > is captured, it can be checked out early or late". > > I've just asked for confirmation that this does, in fact, resolve the > problem. Those reservations in question do have capture_time and the items have On Reservation Shelf status. The issue is they do not show up on Reservation Pick Up screen. When I looked at those records (last Friday), some of them still had a couple of days reservation period. Thanks Tina Ji Trainer/Help Desk Specialist BC SITKA Evergreen Implementation Tel: 604-542-0325
