LINKcat News

Option to add 7-day OverDue notice

In April 2017 two LINKcat libraries conducted a pilot project that added a 7-day overdue notice to their Notices set-up. 

The new 7-day notice, and "new" 14 and 26 day notices, were created by copying existing notice templates and changing the subject lines to reflect the time frame of the notice:

Notice of Item(s) Overdue - 7 day

Notice of Item(s) Overdue - 14 day

Notice of Item(s) Overdue - 26 day

During the May 9, 2017 Circulation Services Subcommittee meeting, committee members reviewed the pilot project results and made a recommendation to "offer... the option of 7 day notices for everyone (LINKcat libraries) with the understanding that libraries can choose whether or not to print them."

If your library would like to add a 7-day Overdue notice to your Notice Set-up, please submit a work request via the Help Desk Portal.

If a library chooses to opt-in to this option, three overdue notices could potentially be emailed to the patron or generated in the library's print notice index for the patron. Email notices would be automatically sent to the patron; library staff could review their print notices and decide whether or not to print them. 

LINKcat Online Payments - new Terms of Agreement

As per the recommendation from the Circulation Services Subcommittee and the approval of the ILS Committee, Terms of Agreement have been added to the LINKcat Online Payment "Payment Options" page. This has been done in order to provide the patron with more information about the use of this service, and also to emphasize that they must pay their balance in full in order to use this payment option.

The Terms of Agreement are as follows:

• I understand that all payments (sales) made using the LINKcat online payment portal are for the full balance owed (no partial payments) and are final.
• Any refunds or credits must be requested from the library that received the online payment.
• Any refunds or credits will not be credited back to the card.
• Refund eligibility for lost and paid items is determined by the owning library.
• The name of the vendor on your credit card statement will be “South Central Library System”.

If you AGREE to these Terms and wish to proceed, click the “Pay full amount with Credit/Debit card” hyperlink.

If you DO NOT AGREE to these Terms, click the Exit button and talk to your library staff about an alternate payment method.

<The text on the payment button has been changed to read "Pay full amount with Credit/Debit card".>

The Online Payments document is also being updated to contain the new Terms of Agreement and a new screen shot.

 

News Summary (6/1/2017-6/30/2017)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 6/29/17 25,724 items and 3,994 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 6/29/17 4,986 bibliographic records were added and/or updated in the database between 5/26/17 and 6/28/17.
• 6/20/17 The Videorecordings Searching and Matching Policy has been updated to reflect recent changes regarding circulating Criterion Collection sets together. See the LINK 2.0 Koha blog post for details.
• 6/20/17 The Levels of Cataloging Policy has been updated to reflect recent changes regarding materials that will not be cataloged. See the LINK 2.0 Koha blog post for details.
• 6/20/17 The following collection codes have been deleted from Koha due to low use: BKANFMH (BOOKS AD NFIC MODERN HISTORY), CAJWL (CASSETTES JU WORLD LANG), VRJWL (VIDEO REC JU WORLD LANG).
• 6/13/17 Sign up for ILS demos from SirsiDynix and III Polaris here.
• 6/13/17 Visit the Exhibits at ALA in Chicago on June 24 and meet with our vendors! More information is available here.
• 6/1/17 The monthly Koha reports for May 2017 can be found online.
• 6/1/17 Libraries may set local rules for Equip item type.
• 6/1/17 New PREREG patron category available.

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