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Requesting & Lending For SOLAR Libraries

Each participating SOLAR library has a special Staff ILL ID that is used to make requests through the MaineCat - Online Catalog - and track transactions using the DCB (Distributed Consortial Borrowing) client. Contrary to practice prior to May, 2006, all requests are made in MaineCat, not the SOLAR catalog, and all staff processes involved with lending and borrowing go through the Millennium DCB module.

Procedures for Requesting and Lending for SOLAR Libraries
Steps Patron's Library Lending Library Notes
1 Receives request from patron, places request through MaineCat web OPAC   Item gets status REQUESTED.
2  

Prints daily from Notices mode, Notice Type= INN-Reach Paging Slips.

Retrieves item from shelf.

 

Item has status MELINK PAGED.

If item cannot be found, or for some other reason cannot be sent, cancel the request: Use Search mode to look up your item, highlight it on Summary tab, click on Requests tab, click to highlight the request, click Cancel Request button. INN-Reach will look for another source before passing cancel msg to requesting site.
3   Inserts a 14-digit codabar barcode if the item does not have one. Use Search mode to look up the item and insert a barcode field with one of the barcodes provided by MSL. A supply of standard barcodes is available to SOLAR libraries on request from Maine InfoNet staff (contact us).
4  

Uses Library Check-Out mode to send item on its way to requesting library.

Encloses paging slip, highlighting return address.

  
5

Receives item, checks it in through Not My Item Check-In mode.

Places item on holdshelf.

When patron comes for the item, uses Patron Check-Out mode to check the item out to the library's generic ID.

  

Think of it this way: an institutionally loaned item is being checked in, then it is checked out on a personal and local loan.

Status changes from IN TRANSIT to IR RCVD. 

 
6 Gives item to patron, keeps track using manual system, local circ system or other purely local means.    
7

Receives returned item from local patron, clears any local / manual record of transaction.  

Enters barcode in Not My Item Check-In.

Prints Transit Slip when offered the opportunity.

Ships item back to owning library with Transit Slip.

  This step changes status of item from IR RECVD to OFF CAM.
8   Receives item, checks it in through My Item Check-In.

Reshelves item.

Status changes from OFF CAM to AVAILABLE.