At Asbury Seminary we have been using the Acq module since we went live a
year and a half ago. For the most part, it handles Firm Orders correctly.
It is not designed to handle Standing Orders, e.g. Periodicals, Serials,
Monographic series, and Blanket orders. To handle these types of orders we
Elaine,
Thanks for all the feedback. It has helped me work though the options. We do
have a test system that we can try things out on, once I get it updated with a
more recent copy of our production system.
Here is a summary of what I think our options are.
1. Manually route
Josh,
If you are a consortium with a floating collection, and no property
designation on the item, does it matter which copy fills which hold as
long as the hold gets filled?
Elaine
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Hi Sharon,
We are a consortium of 28 libraries. We have 12 libraries currently using
EG Acquisitions and 2 libraries using MARC Batch Import to load on order
bibs and items into the catalog. The workflows for our acquisitions
libraries vary greatly depending on staffing and need. Many of our
Josh,
A floating collection would certainly change how you would handle items.
No PINES library has a floating collections at this point, so I am not
sure I can answer your questions since we don't have experience with it. I
can tell you that, with PINES holds configuration, there is no
Hi Josh,
One thing you could try is to add the new items with a non-holdable
status. Then you can check them in and they will be set in transit to
their circ library rather than being captured for any holds. I'm not
sure exactly what will happen when they're received at their circ
library. It
