Follett VERSION 6.00 Manuale Utente

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Circulation Desk

becomes available. Circulation Desk allows you to extend the expiration date of a

hold at any time.

A brief introduction to reserves

Circulation Desk allows you to place a reserve for a patron. A reserve is basically

a hold for a specific copy for a specific future date. The following scenarios

provide examples for the use of a reserve:

A student wants to have a certain book for a class presentation two weeks

from now. Her library has enabled Patron Empowerment so she logs on to

her OPAC, locates the item, and places a reserve for the copy she wants. Two

weeks later, she returns to pick up the copy.
Another patron, a faculty member, would like you to set aside several books

he needs for his lesson plan in two months. To ensure that the teacher gets

the items he wants, you create reserves for him. Two months later, the teacher

retrieves the copies that have circulated in the interim.

You can place a reserve on copies that are available, on hold, checked out, at the

bindery, or loaned out. You cannot place a reserve on copies that are missing, lost

or temporary, or have a circulation type of *NC. You can place a reserve for any

date in the future that the library is open.
When reserving an item, you specify a copy and the date that the patron wants

the item. The copy is then reserved for the length of the loan period. Note that the

shortest reserve period is one day; items with an hourly loan period would use

this minimum reserve period.

Example:  

If a patron reserves an item for March 18th, and the loan period is 10

days (2 weeks), the reserve period is March 18-April 1.

Readying reserves

To ensure that the reserved item is ready for pickup, you select, in System Setup

| Setup | Circulation | Holds, the number of pre-reserve processing days that

you need. If you set it to, say 

, then two days before a reserve date, Circulation

Desk performs the following actions:



The Daily Holds Processing changes the hold status of the reserved item to

Pending. After further processing, if the item is available, the hold status

changes to Ready and its copy status becomes On Hold.



The Daily Holds Processing exception report lists the reserved items that are

processed each day. You have those two days to locate the copies, place them

on the hold shelf, and remind the patrons to pick them up. For more

information, see Interpreting the Daily Holds Processing exception report"

on page 171.

Circulating reserves

Because the copy status of a reserved item does not change until the processing

date, it is available for circulation until then. If another patron checks out a