RE: Offline Circulation

["Lisa BILLINGHAM" <l dot billingham at ecu dot edu dot au>]

Hi Karen

We only use offline circ for checkouts. We found that using the Checkin
facility led to us were missing items that should have been sent in
transit to other sites once checked in. Instead they were being shelved
at the campus where they were checked in.

The longest time that we have used the Offline module is for 1.5 days.
This meant that we have not had to use it for renewals.

Hope this helps.

Lisa Billingham
Innopac Systems Librarian
Building 18 Level 2 
Edith Cowan University
Joondalup
WA 6027
Phone: (08) 6304 5213
Fax: (08) 6304 5199 

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-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Karen Bracken
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:51 AM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: Offline Circulation

I am in the process of creating a procedure for Offline Circulation and
have a question for the group.  Thankfully we have only needed to go on
offline a few times, and then only for a short amount of time.  Even
though the amount of time has been minimal, we have had several errors
after processing the transactions. One was a result of checking
out/checking in multiple times during the offline session (public PC's)
These error our as checkout uses date/time and checkin uses date, and
implies a 12:00am time.  We solved this by hand counting PC's during
downtime.  The other issue is whether to just checkout during offline,
and checkin in all items once we come backup, but before we upload. 
This way we can catch holds, and eliminate some items erroring out
because the customer has a block of some sort.  Currently we checkout
and check in.  Any thought would be appreciated.



Karen Bracken
Data Technician, Riverside Public Library
(951) 826-5214
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