Re: [Evergreen-general] How do you handle placing temporary ILL items on hold?

2023-01-03 Thread Joan Kranich via Evergreen-general
Hi Benjamin, Some of our libraries create a brief bibliographic record with the title of their town name followed by ILL. They add an item for each ILL item. Some use a numbering system in the call number and others put the title of the item in the call number. Some of our libraries use precat

Re: [Evergreen-general] How do you handle placing temporary ILL items on hold?

2023-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Davis via Evergreen-general
Hi Benjamin We have a mix of workflows. 1. Some libraries use the Pre-cats and there are some distinct workflow options: * Notify the patron and then check it out via the pre-cats when the patron arrives to pick it up. * Check it out via the pre-cat option and then notify the

Re: [Evergreen-general] How do you handle placing temporary ILL items on hold?

2023-01-03 Thread Jennifer Pringle via Evergreen-general
Hi Benjamin, For our libraries that want to be able to use Evergreen's automated notifications for ILLs we recommend they use a set of brief records with placeholder items that they rotate through (and keep in an item bucket). (Libraries that don't want to use the automated

[Evergreen-general] How do you handle placing temporary ILL items on hold?

2023-01-03 Thread Murphy, Benjamin via Evergreen-general
We're looking for suggestions on how to efficiently place ILL items on hold for patrons that have requested them. (Items that aren't in Evergreen and won't need to be there long term.) Current behavior we're getting is that the ILL item comes in, the staff add it as a pre-cat item, goes to the

[Evergreen-general] Next Dev Meeting - January 10th at 3pm Eastern, 12 Pacific

2023-01-03 Thread Jason Boyer via Evergreen-general
The first Evergreen dev meeting of 2023 is January 10th at 3pm Eastern / 12 Pacific in #evergreen on Libera.chat. Agenda is at https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:meetings:2023-01-10 . Be the patch you want to see committed in the next point release. Jason -- Jason Boyer Senior