Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding Evergreen and transit between libraries

2013-04-12 Thread Aaron Zsembery 
On April 12, 2013 at 1:28:57 PM Deana Cunningham 
deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org wrote:
 Does anyone deal with a similar situation? Can anyone tell me if
 Evergreen can handle multiple transit times appropriately?
In Evergreen, you scan the item to put it into In transit status at the 
sending library and then it gets scanned again at the destination library when 
it arrives to let the system know that it is no longer In Transit and the 
patron can be notified that their hold is available for pickup.
Evergreen doesn't care if 3 minutes, 3 weeks or 3 years pass between when the 
item is put In Transit and when it comes back out.
See http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.1/html/transititems.html for a little more 
info about how transits are handled.

Aaron Z
Jr. Systems Administrator

Pioneer Library System
2557 State Rt. 21
Canandaigua, New York  14424
Phone: (585) 394-8260

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question regarding Evergreen and transit between libraries

2013-04-12 Thread Rene Belling 
We are a City/County Library System that has a total of 10 branches
scattered across the county.  Evergreen sends the item checked in straight
to each branch whether it is to fill a request, or to return the item to
the owning branch.

As Aaron answered, Evergreen doesn't care how long it takes once the item
is in transit.  However, unless you have delivery from each branch to each
branch bypassing your main library, everything will still take two weeks to
be delivered.

I'm not sure if your question is implying that your current ILS has to have
everything routed in and then back out from your main library, or if it is
because of your delivery schedule.

Here when we check in an item, it is immediately in transit to the owning
branch.  However, all our items also go through the main library before
going out to the branches, but that is because we only have one area at the
main library that sorts though all the route ins/outs and puts them in the
correct crates to be delivered to each branch.  However, we have morning
and afternoon delivery each day, so it only takes between two to three days
to get from one branch to another.

Does this help?


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Deana Cunningham 
deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org wrote:

  Hi,

  We are a county library system that is in the process of moving to
 Evergreen. Our current ILS does not deal appropriately with transits
 between smaller branches, and I am wondering if Evergreen will do any
 better.

  We have a situation where all items between branches have to go through
 the main library first. That means that it takes two weeks if it is moving
 between the smaller branches - one week to the main branch, where it sits
 until the next week's deliveries. However, items from the Main Branch only
 take one week to reach their destination, and items from the smaller
 branches moving to the Main Branch only take one week.

  Does anyone deal with a similar situation? Can anyone tell me if
 Evergreen can handle multiple transit times appropriately?

  Thanks,

 Deana Cunningham
 Branch Manager, South Branch Library
 1550 S. Campus Dr.
 Creedmoor, NC 27522
 Phone: (919) 528-1752
 Fax: (919) 528-1376
 deana.cunning...@granvillecounty.org




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Rene' Belling
Library Asst.
831-427-7706,
ext. 7642