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At the Isham Memorial Library, we use Aeon principally for workflow management of our special collections (Merritt Room) materials. Patron requests for Merritt Room materials are monitored by Houghton Library staff. 

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Requesting items

If you are placing a request for your own research, please do so from a personal account. Do not use the Music Library Aeon account for personal research. 

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1. Click on Request to Copy or Visit.
2. Follow the prompts for a non-Harvard Key user. 
3. Log in using the Music Library user ID and password (these are available from the Keeper). 
4. Once you have placed your request, note the transaction number it has been assigned. 

To request from Aeon:

1. In the Dashboard Search Users group, search for Music Library.
2. Navigate to the Home ribbon and click on the New Request for User button in the Requests group.
3. On the Request form, click the Catalog Search tab and search for the item.
4. On the Catalog Search ribbon, click the Import button.
5. In the Request Information pane, under Request For, select Researcher, then your name. If you are requesting the item for a class or other event, select Activity, then the name of the event. 
6. Click on Save Changes in the Next Step group.

Checking out items

1. Click on the Print Callslip button .Click on Print in the print dialog box.to generate a paper slip. We use perforated paper to print Aeon requests: half goes in the item being taken from the shelf, the other half stays on the shelf. It is #4339 (laser paper perforated, 8 1/2 x 11, center vertical perf). A supply of perforated paper may be found in the supplies cupboard on the first floor of the Music Library. 
2. Route the request to:
   1. In Item Retrieval planning to page it immediately
   2. Awaiting Request Processing – Reviewed planning to page it later; when you are ready to page it, route the request to In Item Retrieval
   3. Awaiting Activity Processing planning to page it later for a class or other event
   4. Awaiting HD Delivery planning to order it from HD immediately
   5. Awaiting HD Ordering planning to order it from HD later
3. When you page the item from the shelf, leave the half of the slip marked Item In Use on the shelf and tuck the other half into the item. Once you are back at your desk, change the item's status to Item Checked Out. If the item is stored at HD, you will place the entire slip in the item when it arrives and route the request to Item Checked Out. 

Returning items

When you are finished with the item, route it to Awaiting Item Reshelving, reshelve it, remove both halves of the slip, then route it to Item Reshelved. If the item resides at HD, simply route the request to Request Finished, remove the slip and place the item in a red HD refile bin in the record stacks. 

Aeon activities

Classes, exhibitions, tours: these are all Aeon activities. Aeon funnels to RTL Core Data, so when you log your activity, you can report attendance numbers right in the application rather than toggling back and forth between Aeon and RTL Core Data. Please don't report one task in both places as this would be redundant. 

Aeon paper

We use perforated paper to print Aeon requests: half goes in the item being taken from the shelf, the other half stays on the shelf. It is #4339 (laser paper perforated, 8 1/2 x 11, center vertical perf). A supply of perforated paper may be found in the supplies cupboard on the first floor of the Music Library. 

Help with Aeon

Aeon documentation may be found on the Harvard Library Aeon wiki or the Aeon section of the Atlas Systems website.

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