Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Items not checking in?

[Buzzy Nielsen]

There are a few popups that we've deemed unnecessary. For instance, there's a pop up that appears at checkin for a "bad status", requiring staff to affirm that they do indeed want to check in the item. Two of those statuses are "Lost" and "Missing". Our staff honestly couldn't come up with any reason why we wouldn't want to check in items with those two statuses, at least not given our workflow and processes. Another (admittedly self-inflicted) example are the "check parts" notices some of our consortium members use. Oh, how happy would we be to convince our fellow libraries not to use those ... Anyway, this is all to say that those messages do indeed slow down work flow, and they can be painfully slow to pop up on older computers. Fortunately, all of our equipment is pretty new, but I know our smaller libraries can have issues with the speed as they have the double hit of slow hardware and slow connections. Cheers! Buzzy ************************************ Library Director Hood River County Library District 502 State Street Hood River, Oregon 97031 541-387-7062 http://hoodriverlibrary.org On 04/14/2014 01:12 PM, McCanna, Terran wrote: Most of those alerts are important, are they not? It's been a little while, but when I've covered Circ and done check-ins, I don't recall getting anything that I regarded as an unnecessary alert - I only recall things that required some sort of staff action such as routing, printing hold slips, etc. If alerts were suppressed, wouldn't that cause far more staff error? Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org