What's New for Member Libraries

Posted by Angela Schneider
Winnefox Library System
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:47pm

Recordings of all 14 webinars from the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference are available here. Watch sessions in 4 tracks — Management, R&RA, Small Libraries, & Internal Communications — plus opening and closing sessions. (Recorded webinars may be counted as a Category C continuing education actifity.)

The 13th annual WWWC was a state-wide virtual conference supported by all 15 library systems and DPI. Because of this collaboration, all sessions are available to you at no cost.

What's New in WALS

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Posted by Karla Smith
Winnefox Library System
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 2:15pm

Salutations!

Today’s Topic: How to get rid of all those Lost Item Alerts, or What to do when you get the “Item not found in Catalog” popup.

 When a patron doesn’t return an item, after 30 days it becomes LOST and the patron is Billed for the item. For 18-22 months, the item stays in LOST Limbo and remains in the database and on the patron’s record as LOST bill.  3-4 times/yr I run a report that moves these items and bills from LOST Limbo to UI Purgatory. This process removes the item from the database (so they don’t show in the catalog or WF), and removes the LOST bill, and replaces it with a UI-ITEM bill.  It also writes the item’s info to the patron record in the Lost Items Note field. Why do you care? ...Read more...

What's New in General

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 4:01pm

For conferences and webinars from in-state providers, see the Wisconsin Libraries Professional Learning Calendar.

 

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