Re: [IUG] Purchase alerts

[Phil Shirley <pshirley at cuyahogafallslibrary dot org>]

Eeva,

Thanks for the correction.  I didn't get that from reading the manual.

Phil

Eeva Stierwalt wrote:
> Phil: Good afternoon!  Actually, our High Demand Holds report does
> indeed pull up titles on order and these can be easily spotted in the
> list because they have 0 items attached (you can sort by these).   It
> does also count items with special status such as missing, withdrawn,
> etc.  The beauty of it is that you can sort by the column headers  AND
> you can get all of the highest demand items at the top of the list AND
> you can right click to see the records!  You can also EXPORT your report
> to Excel.  We're very pleased with the functionality!  Kind regards and
> have a SUPER weekend!  Eeva
>  
> Eeva Stierwalt
> Integrated Library System
> Solutions Specialist
> Information Technology
> London Public Library
> 251 Dundas St.
> London, ON  Canada  N6A 6H9
> t 519.661.5100 ex 5156
> f 519.663.9013
> e eeva dot stierwalt at lpl dot london dot on dot ca 
>  
> > > > Phil Shirley <pshirley at cuyahogafallslibrary dot org> 6/20/2008 8:49 AM
> It's great that Innovative has improved purchase alert info by 
> introducing High Demand Holds.  However, I'm not completely happy with
>
> it because, unless I'm mistaken (based on reading the manual and
> looking 
> at the High Demand Holds feature briefly):
>
> 1.  It doesn't count things that are on order.  If I've already ordered
>
> some extra copies to deal with the holds then I don't want to see the 
> title on the list anymore.  Also, the report apparently wouldn't work
> at 
> all for titles for which you haven't received any items (assuming you 
> don't create item records until you receive physical items); if I've 
> ordered one copy of a title and there are 100 holds then I want to know
>
> this as soon as possible and not have to wait until the item is
> received.
>
> 2.  It apparently counts all items, even those which cannot fill holds
>
> because they are missing, claimed returned, billed, billed & paid, or 
> even non-circulating (if you have a mix of circulating and 
> non-circulating items on a bib).  Hopefully you won't have too many of
>
> these items, but they could cause titles to not appear on the report.
>
> There may be other ways of dealing with these issues within the system
> - 
> I don't know.  I remember being unsatisfied with what I could get with
>
> the purchase alerts a few years ago so I modified somebody else's perl
>
> script to give me exactly what I wanted, including dealing with the 
> issues above.
>
> Phil
>
> Mary Cohen wrote:
> > Thanks Eeva.  We aren't on 2007 yet but hopefully soon.
> >
> > Mary
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org 
> > [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Eeva
> Stierwalt
> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:35 AM
> > To: innopac at innopacusers dot org 
> > Subject: Re: [IUG] Purchase alerts
> >
> > Good afternoon!  We're on Rls 2007 and we use a wonderful new feature
> in
> > Millennium called "High-demand holds" to track the purchase alerts
> and
> > to be able to keep an eye on items with large holds lists!  We LOVE
> it! 
> > Look at the What's New section of the manual (p. 107673) -- it's the
> > first item listed there with links to how it works!  I hope that
> helps! 
> > Kind regards, Eev
> >  
> > Eeva Stierwalt
> > Integrated Library System
> > Solutions Specialist
> > Information Technology
> > London Public Library
> > 251 Dundas St.
> > London, ON  Canada  N6A 6H9
> > t 519.661.5100 ex 5156
> > f 519.663.9013
> > e eeva dot stierwalt at lpl dot london dot on dot caa 
> > > > > Mary Cohen <mcohen at pvld dot org> 6/18/2008 6:31 PM >>>
> > Could someone give me feedback on how they handle purchase alerts?
> > Purchase alerts encompasses everything on the list and we are only
> > really looking at our books.  We've also been looking at the view
> > outstanding holds tab in circ but that is also cumbersome.  There
> also
> > isn't a "holds" file for create lists but I think there is an
> > enhancement in the future regarding this.  That might be an easy way
> > to
> > limit by location.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help in advance,
> >
> >
> >
> > Mary
> >
> >
> >
> > Mary N. Cohen
> >
> > Technical Services Dept. Head
> >
> > Palos Verdes Library District
> >
> > 701 Silver Spur Road
> >
> > Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
> >
> > 310.377.9584 x242
> >
> > Fax: 310.541.6807
> >
> >
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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