Re: Precedence to Local Holds

["John Rutherford" <aw8721 at wayne dot edu>]

Laura,

ON the local holding information. You might try this as a starter:

920        |aCCSU Rare Books Pam|b811.54 W16 |cAVAILABLE

Where the marc tag is 920 and |a contains our location name, |b call number, 
and |c Circ Status.

This was what they used to do, but it may have changed.

JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurie Shedrick" <lshedrick at midhudson dot org>
To: "IUG INNOPAC List" <innopac at innopacusers dot org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: Precedence to Local Holds


> Mid-Hudson Library System had used the Local Preference for a short time,
> but turned it off because we found that it did not work the way we had 
> hoped
> and assumed that it would.  We would very much like to see this feature
> enhanced.  If an item has been captured to fill a hold and is placed in
> transit, it will be recalled back to fill a hold to be picked up from the
> item's location.  Upon check in, it prompts you to return it to the owning
> agency to fill a hold.  There are two downsides to this.  The first is
> delivery.  Sending something out, just to send it back is crazy, 
> especially
> if there are other available copies which could be paged.  The worst thing
> was that our patrons had gotten savvy enough to know where they were in 
> the
> holds queue.  They knew they were up next and that the hold was on its 
> way.
>
> If local precedence treated in transit items the way it treats on 
> holdshelf
> items, we would be very happy to go back to it.
>
>
> .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
> Laurie Shedrick, Automated Systems Manager
> Mid-Hudson Library System
> 103 Market St
> Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
> 845.471.6060 x21
> lshedrick at midhudson dot org
> .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
> [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org]On Behalf Of Michele Morgan
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:53 PM
> To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
> Subject: Re: Precedence to Local Holds
>
>
> NOBLE has had this option turned on since it became available. It works
> well in our consortium of 28 independent libraries. When there is a
> hold queue on a title, and an attached item is checked in, the system
> looks at the pickup location of the hold and the owning location of the
> item. Out of the subset of holds where it finds a match, the hold with
> the top priority, usually the oldest, is filled. If there's no match,
> the item will go to the hold at the top of the queue. This gives a given
> library's patrons best access to that library's items and cuts down on
> items unneccessarily traveling around the network.
>
> This is one of the very few system options that looks at the pickup
> location for a hold rather than a patron's ptype or home library. In our
> consortium, which library a patron "belongs to" is hard to define. Our
> patrons travel around. A single patron may use different libraries at
> different times, so there's no code in the patron record that reflects
> the patron's library of the moment. The patron's chosen pickup location
> is the best reflection of this.
>
> One thing the Local Hold Priority does not help with is paging available
> items. For systems set up with Bib Level Paging, as is ours, we still
> have the problem where items can be paged from anywhere, even if there's
> a copy available at the pickup point. We're eagerly looking forward to
> the "Priority Paging" enhancement coming in Release 2005.
>
> Jan Sapp wrote:
> > Is anybody using this feature?  If so, how well does it work.  It
> > supposedly fills all local holds before attempting to fill non-local
> > holds.  Thanks!
> >
> > Jan Sapp
> > Carrollton Public Library
> > Electronic Resources Coordinator
> > 972-466-3591
> > jan dot sapp at cityofcarrollton dot com <mailto:jan dot sapp at cityofcarrollton dot com>
> >
> > Please note:  I will be out of the office April 24th thru April 29th.
>
> --
> Michele Morgan, Technical Assistant
> North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
> mmorgan at noblenet dot org
> Ph: 978-777-8844
> Fax: 978-750-8472
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