Follett VERSION 6.00 Manuale Utente

04/04

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Appendices

Starting circulation mode and setting the date

To collect remote circulation data with the PHD:
1. Turn on your PHD (see page 657). From the PHD main menu, press 

(Circulation). A message appears asking if you want to change the date and

time. If the date and time are correct, press 

 (No) and skip to Checking

out and renewing items" below or Checking in items" below.

Important: 

 Circulation Desk processes transactions based on the month and

day you entered them into the PHD. The year is pulled from the

workstation's system date. To ensure that your statistics are

accurate, we recommend that you upload the PHD data to

Circulation Desk on the same day as the transaction.

2. If you need to change the date and time, press 

 (Yes). The ENTER

CURRENT TIME prompt appears. Enter the correct hour and minutes, and

press 

 after each. At the prompt, either press 

 to indicate AM or 

 for

PM. Follow the prompts to enter the current month (1-12), date (1-31), and

year (0-99). Press 

 after each step.

If you want to check out items, see the following section. If you need to check

in items, see Checking in items" on page 663.

Checking out and renewing items

1. To checkout or renew items, once you've accepted or changed the date, the

CHECKOUT? prompt appears. Press 

 (Yes).

2. The SCAN PATRON prompt appears. To select the patron borrowing or

renewing the copies, scan or type the patron's barcode. (After typing a

barcode, press 

 to save it.)

Note: 

 If your library uses patron IDs rather than a defined barcode

symbology, you can type them into your PHD by pressing 

 .

 (shift, period, shift), which generates a forward slash, then

typing the ID number.

3. The SCAN BARCODE prompt appears. To check out a copy to the selected

patron, scan or type the copy barcode. Repeat this step for each item the

current patron is checking out or renewing.
To change patrons, press 

 (Exit) and repeat steps 2 and 3 until you are

finished checking out items.

If you want to switch to checkin, press 

 (Exit) until you return to the PHD main

menu. Press 

 (Circulation) to reenter circulation mode, press 

 (No) to accept

the time and date, and then continue with the following section, Checking in

items."
When you are finished with the PHD, press 

 (Exit) until you return to the PHD

main menu, and then turn off the PHD to conserve the battery charge.

Important: 

 Transfer the data to Circulation Desk as soon as possible (page 176),

and then erase the scans from your PHD (page 664).