Re: [IUG] Temporary location closure and title priority paging

["Gayle Simundza" <gsimundza at clamsnet dot org>]

We have just gone through this with two of the libraries in our consortium. 
We found that taking them out of the Hold Pickup Locations table also 
removes them from the title paging priority table, and I don't know of a way 
around this.

Until last year, we just used Item-level paging, which separated the paging 
function from the hold pickup table; however, with title priority paging, 
the setup is more intertwined, and we couldn't separate out the two.

If you have more questions, feel free to contact me.

Gayle

Gayle Simundza
Executive Director
CLAMS (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing)
270 Communication Way, Unit 4E
Hyannis, MA 02601
(508) 790-4399 x11
Email:  gsimundza at clamsnet dot org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nprice at cclsd dot org>
To: <innopac at innopacusers dot org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:28 PM
Subject: [IUG] Temporary location closure and title priority paging


> Good day, all.
>
> One of our sites will be closed to the public sporadically during a 
> building remodel.
>
> Staff will continue to work at the site. So in theory we could continue to 
> supply
> patron requests through paging. But we need to prevent patrons from 
> choosing the
> site as a hold *pickup* location.
>
> Our consortium uses title priority paging. We allow patrons to place holds 
> from the
> OPAC.
>
> Does anyone have prior experience with managing such a circumstance? 
> Specifically,
> have you found it possible to suppress the site from the pickup location 
> list, but
> still allow for title priority paging to page the site?
>
> I've been poring over the "Location Closing Temporarily" FAQ on CSDirect, 
> and even
> talked a bit with support staff at III. The FAQ implies that removing the 
> site from
> the pickup locations table will also prevent the site from being paged. 
> Although the
> logic of that is not entirely clear to me.
>
> Please contact me if you have any experience to share.
>
> Thank you,
> Nancy Price
> Coos County Library Service District
> Coos Bay, Oregon
> nprice at cclsd dot org
>
>
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