Hello Everyone, Our migration to KOHA is going pretty well but we've run into one bump and it has to do with interlibrary loan. Wondering what setup/practice you have for ILL at your libraries. Right now it looks as if the best method would be to create a fast add item for each title. Your help is much appreciated. Thank you, Deborah Duce, B.A., M.L.I.S. | CEO / Chief Librarian Town of Huntsville | Huntsville Public Library | 7 Minerva Street East (705) 789-5232 ext 3407 | 1-888-696-4255 ext 3407 | TTY - 705-789-1768 www.huntsvillelibrary.net Please consider the environment before printing this email This E-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this E-mail message immediately.
Our migration to KOHA is going pretty well
Please note that "Koha" is not an acronym, it's a regular (Maori) word.
Right now it looks as if the best method would be to create a fast add item for each title.
That's basically what we do, although we don't do it on the fly at the circ desk, since our workflow has been established since before the fast-add on circ functionality existed. We have a brief MARC framework set up and the ILL librarians add each title as they arrive. Our biggest problem is getting the ILL librarians to delete the records after the loan has been returned. No release yet, but this project looks promising: http://www.fulfillment-ill.org/ -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
We do the same, we have the ILL framework with the defaults already filled in, so we type the title in the bib record, scan a barcode in the item record and place the hold. (Make sure the item is marked as not being able to be seen in catalog in your default framework.) For returns, we just bulk delete the item records under tools and have a "sweep" deletion of all MARC records without items to clean out the catalog by our Vendor every month. (This works niftily for weeding deletions as well.) I had a Windows macro that autopopulated the fields (title, barcode, patron placed hold) from our Excel spreadsheet, but it is very unwieldy and not ready for distribution (I am not a programmer.) Hal Bright Farmington Libraries ________________________________________ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] on behalf of Owen Leonard [oleonard@myacpl.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:01 AM To: Deborah Duce Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] interlibrary loan
Our migration to KOHA is going pretty well
Please note that "Koha" is not an acronym, it's a regular (Maori) word.
Right now it looks as if the best method would be to create a fast add item for each title.
That's basically what we do, although we don't do it on the fly at the circ desk, since our workflow has been established since before the fast-add on circ functionality existed. We have a brief MARC framework set up and the ILL librarians add each title as they arrive. Our biggest problem is getting the ILL librarians to delete the records after the loan has been returned. No release yet, but this project looks promising: http://www.fulfillment-ill.org/ -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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