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This is effectively Circulation Class #2. Prerequisite: Circulation #1

Items

View Item Loan Status

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Documentation suggests we would have separate entries for change the due date and changing the pick-up location.

Process Pull/Pick list

Notes: This list updates in real time and can be printed at any time.  It could even be printed multiple times a day if desired. A report with all items can be printed or slips can be printed individually.  The list can also be exported to excel.

1. From the main Fulfillment menu, navigate to "Pick from shelf"
2. Choose "Print Slip Report"
3. The list can be sent to a specific user or printer or downloaded as a file.
4. Retrieve items from the list
5. From the main Fulfillment menu choose "Return items".
6. Scan in barcode of item(s) in hand
   1. For NOS/missing items, follow steps below
7. Proceed according to local workflows to transfer materials or place on hold shelves

Pick List Items Not on Shelf/Missing

1. After checking stacks and item(s) are not on shelf.
2. Navigate to pick from shelf processing and locate the request/title.
3. Mark item as missing. You will be prompted that it will mark the entire holding as missing - this will only mark the items at the current location as missing, not all other Harvard libraries.
4. This will move the request to next available library.
5.  Best practice is not to use skip location - you would then need to go back and mark the item as missing. You would use skip location to then create a work order (for example if an item needs preservation work and is not actually missing).
6. As soon as you create a work order for an item, that item will not be available.

Process Incoming Materials from Bins

Red or Green bins. Need documentation (none yet)

Clear Hold Shelf

This last section needs work

Note: Fulfillment group asked peers best practice of workflow from start to finish, as there are a number of ways to process these – waiting for responses.

- some libraries do this visually, by looking at the date on the hold slip

- some libraries do this using reports

Alma sorts items into 4 tabs / next steps

Reshelve / Send to Circulation Desk / Send to Library / Activate Next

This is the explanation of the 4 tabs from Ex Libris:

Reshelve - Displays all expired requests for items belonging to the current circulation desk and for which there is no other request in the queue.

Send to Circulation Desk - Lists all requests for items belonging to a different circulation desk in the same library or that are requested for pickup at another desk within the same library.

Send to Library - Lists all requests for items belonging to a different library or that are requested for pickup at another library.

Activate Next - Activates the next request in the queue, which cancels the first request and makes the item available to the next requester.

• Items can be selected individually to be moved to their next step in their workflow.
• For the sake of accuracy it is probably better to only check books in this screen that are in hand.