Re: Printing notices for selected locations

["Bob Pruyn" <Bob at minlib dot net>]

    Hi Brenda, (and Joan) I like your solution based
on modifications to the Locations Served.  In answer to
Brenda's original quuestion, the system is smart enough
to realize, that for items on hold that the patrons DO pickup,
no notification is needed, and the notice does go away.
(If you try sending notices in Telnet, it displays a list
of all the ones "no longer needed")
      The ones that do accumulate are the Hold Cancellations,
and you should dump those (maybe once a month).
      Good luck,  Bob Pruyn - Minuteman Library Network

-----Original Message-----
From: "Joan Kranich" <jkranich at cwmars dot org>
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:42:38 -0400
Subject: Re: Printing notices for selected locations

> Hello from C/W MARS,
> A few of our libraries began producing Holds Pickup Notices last 
> May.  I log into Milcirc periodically and clear the notices for the 
> libraries not yet ready to produce their own.
> 
> I log into Milcirc with a login using a special location served.  The 
> set up of this location served excludes the libraries producing their 
> own notices.   I log into Milcirc and gather all of the notices, move 
> them to the print queue, and print them to my email address.  
> When I click Send, I modify the number notice to a higher number 
> to reduce the number of notices actually sent to my email address. 
> Last, I answer Yes to Clear all notices.
> 
> Joan Kranich, C/W MARS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Date sent:      	Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:52:47 -0400
> From:           	"Brenda K. Giovanneillo" <brenda at alisnet dot info>
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> Good Morning all:
> 
> ALIS has been live since March 22.  We are a very large 
> consortium with a huge holds business (in August we filled 
> almost 36,000 holds).
> 
> All printing is done at the central site.  Most of our 
> libraries do not use hold pickup notices (they call or send 
> post cards).  Until now we have printed hold pickup notices 
> for all locations - it was just easier.  Now that we are 
> settling in, we need to stop producing hold pickup notices 
> for the libraries that do not want them.
> 
> We know how to select locations for which to prepare 
> notices.  My question is what happens to the notices for the 
> locations for which we don't produce them?  Do they somehow 
> wither away and die at some point?  Or do they remain on the 
> system in some undead state, so that if for some reason we 
> ever prepare hold pickup notices for all locations again, 
> they will appear in the many thousands?
> 
> Just one more thing to worry about.....
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Brenda Giovanneillo
> ALIS Consortium Director
> Nassau County, Long Island, New York
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Brenda K. Giovanneillo
> ALIS Consortium Director
> Nassau County, New York
> 516.292.8920  ext. 241
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