Thanks! That's how we did things with our manual system: the media booker would check stuff out and put it on a shelf at circ.
I'd love to hear from anyone else who is using bookings and what your workarounds are. Thanks! Tara On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Gordana Vitez <gvi...@niagaracollege.ca>wrote: > You're absolutely right. It is a real pain. To get around this, our > media point people sign out the reserved items in advance to the > instructor. So if it's a late pickup, it doesn't affect the booking. > > Again, not perfect, but it seems to be working for us. > > Gordana > > >>> Tara Robertson <information.detect...@gmail.com> 1/24/2012 1:44 PM >>> > > Thanks Gordana, > > Not being able to edit an existing booking seems to be the biggest pain > point, and might be a deal breaker for us. How do you deal with this? > > Yesterday we had a faculty member who was picking up a booking late (they > had 8 films, two of which were not ours, so staff had created a brief bib > so they would be in our system). The staff person had to cancel all 8 > bookings, create two new brief bibs and then recreate 8 bookings, capture > the items, then check them out to the faculty member. > > Do you allow people to pick up bookings late? > > Thanks again, > Tara >