Wednesday Hint 10/01/2008

Kathy Mitchell of CPL gave us this hint at the last AAC meeting.

When you check an item in or out that has a short loan message, Millennium gives you three options: yes, no, or Print this message.

We should always print the message. Put these messages up in the basket on Melody’s cart containing holds that need hold aliases. She will change the message fields in those records to No Message.

After printing the message, do what the message tells you: add a short loan sticker or take one off. Then select Yes to check it in or check it out and proceed as usual. Put the item wherever it should go next, not in a basket. This will make these items much easier to find!

If you find time to change the message yourself or find yourself helping out Melody, Gerri Moeller has done a screencast tutorial on how this is done. It can be found at http://www.owlsnet.info/circ/. It is listed under Instructions, then Short loan stickers.

The screencast is passworded; the login and password are the same as for any OWLSnet passworded site. If you don’t know this, click on the little gold lock at the end of that line, login with your library card number, and you will get the login and password.