The Easter vac changes will be made to the recall procedures from 25th March. This will mean that after that time we will still send out recalls to let people know that their book is requested but we will not adjust due dates.

During the vacation Holds are still just kept for one week, and Holds to collect with other borrowers waiting are still just issued for a week.

Marianne

First thing this morning the long loan and Store due dates for all categories except staff and associates went slightly awry (the result of a change I made on the system yesterday…….sorry).

The long loans were fixed by 9.30 but the Store due dates are still not right. It is still issuing to Aug 2012 (unless the user’s record expires earlier and then it issues to their expiry date). The tables are now correct and we’ve restarted the server but it won’t correct itself so we’re hoping it will be fixed overnight. If not we’ll have to contact Ex Libris on Monday.

Once it’s fixed we’ll run a report to pick up any users with the wrong date but in the meantime if there are any Long Loan renewals from early this morning, or Store books with the wrong date please just change it.

I’m not sure if changing the dates this morning will affect any holds made during that time of so if there are any oddities, this might be why.

Liz 

Liz Lockey
Reader Services
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We’ve added a new process status to Aleph. If you see a book on the opac with a status “Out of Collection Exhibition” it means the book is being used in a library display, usually by LIM.

At the minute there is a new display on Level 2 with lots of books on climate change. Readers can take the books to borrow but they will have to come to the desk to have the status removed first. We thought it was better to do this than leave the books saying In library and staff (possibly) spending a lot of time looking for them when in fact they are not missing.

Thanks
Margaret