LINKcat News

New Item Types and new Circulation Issuing rules added

On April 8, 2015 the ILS Committee approved the addition of three new Items Types; "Book, walk-in, juvenile, 28 day loan" [BKWIJ28] ,  "Book, walk-in, juvenile, 14 day loan" [BKWIJ14] and "DVD, walk-in, juvenile, 7 day loan [DVDWIJ].

 

The new Item Types have been added to the system and Will has created the new Circulation Issuing Rules for each library by copying the existing Circulation Issuing Rules for "Book, Walk-in, 28 day loan",  "Book, Walk-in, 14 day loan" and "DVD, walk-in, 7 day loan" rules.

 

If you want your library's new, juvenile rules to have the same  fine rates, grace periods, and max accruable fines per issue as the existing rules, you need do nothing.

 

If you want your library's new, juvenile rules to have different fine rates, grace periods, or max accruable fine per issue, you must submit the change request(s) on the  Circulation Issuing Rules change request form​.  Please allow 3-5 business days for the changes to be made. 

Patron database cleanup - purging Additional attributes and identifiers section

As part of the on-going task to keep the patron database as clean as possible,  I am proposing that we purge all of the migrated Dynix data that is retained in the "Additional attributes and identifiers" section of patron records.  This data will be 4 years out of date this month.  

 

If you have any objections, please submit them to Heidi Oliversen (holiversen at scls.info) no later than April 24, 2015.

Recommend digital resources for cataloging in LINKcat

The SCLS Digital Content Workgroup has created an online form for library staff to use to recommend digital resources for cataloging. There are many Wisconsin-related digital resources that are publicly available online. However, most of these digital resources are not cataloged in LINKcat. The online form is part of an effort to make more digital resources available through LINKcat.

Please take some time to review the list of resources available through the online form. Choose one or more resources from the list and submit them using the form. A link to the form is also available from the ILS Forms page and from the ILS Cataloging page.

Each recommendation submitted through the form will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The resources will be cataloged by the catalogers at Madison Public Library.