Recordings of all 14 webinars from the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference are available here. Watch sessions in 4 tracks — small & mighty, tech trends, adult services, and library management — plus opening and closing sessions. (Recorded webinars may be counted as a Category C continuing education actifity.)
The 8th annual WWWC was a state-wide virtual conference supported by all 16 library systems and DPI. Because of this collaboration, all sessions are available to you at no cost.
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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...
By the end of June, three of our current electronic resources will be discontinued:
- Kids Search
- Searchasaurus, and
- Student Research Center
I have added a note on the Research pages regarding these changes.
