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Salutations!
The New Online User Registration Form is now LIVE!!
Patrons registering online for a library card from within the Catalog will be redirected to the new form. If you have a link to "Get a Library Card" on your website, talk to Jay about whether the link needs to be updated.
Submitted by smith on
Salutations!!
Today's topic: LibraryUse Cards, or, How should library staff checkout materials they use for their jobs?
Materials checkedout to staff for purposes of doing their job does not count as circulation as far as your library stats go. That is why staff should never use their own personal cards for checking out Storytime materials, or books you're using for Book Clubs, etc. Your personal card should only be used for materials you are checking out for your own personal use. What should you do instead???? Read more.....
Submitted by smith on
Salutations!
This week's 'Minder: Dr Patterson: or, How I learned to Enter ON-ORDER Short Records and Not Drive Melissa to Drink.
Several libraries have started adding short records for things they have ordered (outside WCTS) so that patrons can place holds. This is fine. This is good. However, adding ON-ORDER Short Records for authors on the Favorite Author Club (FAC) is slightly different. At least for prolific FAC authors, it is vital to Melissa’s sanity that you give those Short Records a bit of added attention. The ramifications of not doing so is that the FAC will match a patron with the wrong format or title. Read more...
