Group holds with UTS items

I was reviewing procedures that UTS Library staff would like us to follow, yesterday. So, I thought it timely to send a reminder that, when placing holds in Sirsi Workflows, if there is a copy of the book charged out from the UTS, as well as at other UTL libraries, a group hold should not be used. Non-UTS borrowers cannot borrow the UTS copies and UTS borrowers will need to have the UTS library place their holds. The UTS borrowers will not be able to place hold requests through the Request Item service, either. They will be able to request Inter-campus delivery.

Lari Langford
September 16, 2010

How to find the date "ON ORDER" items in catalogue were ordered

1. "on order" items will show up in Workflows if you have the properties set in
Item Search and Display. Right click on the Item Search and Display button
to get the properties. Then click on the Defaults tab. Scroll down to the
bottom of the Defaults and make sure that "show orders folder" is checked
off and set to "all".

When you use Item Search and Display and you are in a record, you will see
the first 3 or 4 tabs and then ">>>" Click on the arrows to see additional
tabs. One of these is the order tab. You should be able to see the date the
item was ordered and its current status. [from refinfo message by L. Young, 8Nov06]

2. "... don't forget that there is a huge number of vendor records for materials which will be coming to, or have arrived in, the Central Library system which may only be found by using the 'search' feature of Workflows. These records are not displayed in the online catalogue. Many of our titles come automatically from our dealers, not as the result of placing an order. For a complete understanding of the order process one really has to use Workflows. [from refinfo message by S. Alston, 8Nov06]

S. Langlands

Holds and Health Science Consortium Libraries

Memo to: Circulation staff
cc: Laurie Scott, Health Sciences Consortium
cc: Tom Chan, ITS

As a number of Hospital libraries in the Health Sciences Consortium are now using the Sirsi Workflows software for circulation, it's a good time to remind circulation staff that UTL libraries cannot place holds on items in the hospital libraries. Therefore, where title records are shared with UTL libraries, Group Title holds cannot be placed.

Consortium libraries will place holds on items in their own libraries only, not on items in other Consortium libraries. Patron records created by consortium libraries for hospital staff will be created using upper and lower case letters, to help distinguish some of the same people who also hold UTL borrowing cards. UTL staff should not use a patron record belonging to one of the Consortium libraries for any purpose.

Lari Langford
Access and Information Services
Robarts Library

forwarded by RH. Posted by SL. 27 June 2006.

Updating Library Records

We will no longer update library records for anyone other than DIRBs and Continuing Studies students. Please refer everyone else to Perry Hall at Robarts.

Perry Hall - phone - 978-0942
- email - perry.hall@utoronto.ca
- fax - (416) 971-3131

Renata
(posted by S.Langlands)