RE: [IUG] Millennium ILL & In Transit & Holdshelf Status

["Brown, Alan" <A dot Brown at bury dot gov dot uk>]

Jeff,

I agree with you. For any multi-branch library that processes ILL's
centrally the functionality could be improved so that

1. ILLs can be requested using the circulation module so that staff at
each branch can request ILLs to be picked up at that branch

2. When the ILL dept receives the request from another library the item
is checked in and is automatically set in transit to the requesting
location

Its been a while since I have looked at the module, for exactly these
reasons and I am quite happy to put an enhancement request in along
these lines. Is there anything else important that I have missed?

Alan Brown
Library Systems Liaison Officer
Bury Metro Libraries
Resource Services
Textile Hall
Manchester Rd
Bury BL9 0DG
0161 253 5877
http://bury.gov.uk/libraries


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Somerfield [mailto:jsomerfield at lancasterlibraries dot org] 
Sent: 25 April 2006 14:38
To: 'IUG INNOPAC List'
Subject: [IUG] Millennium ILL & In Transit & Holdshelf Status


Hello, all

The Millennium Interlibrary Loan module does not appear to have any
Pickup Location functionality attached to it. It automatically assumes
that the PU Location is the 'ILL Dept.' When items from a supplier are
received, the status in the virtual item goes immediately to On
Holdshelf. What happens when the real PU Location is somewhere else and
there is the possibility of an item being in transit for 3 or 4 days?
There also appears to be nothing resembling IN TRANSIT (HOLD). What
procedure is anyone using to facilitate the sending of ILL material to
libraries other than the one that houses the ILL Department?

I have looked over the 2006 Enhancements & the IUG Enhancement Requests
and have found nothing close to a solution to this problem. Perhaps I
have overlooked something??

Thanks,

--

Jeff Somerfield, Webmaster/Systems Specialist
Library System of Lancaster County
1866 Colonial Village Lane, Suite 107
Lancaster, PA 17601
717.207.0500 x1272 FAX 717.207.0504


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