UPDATE: 2019 Novel Coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic information

PrairieCat News

TRAINING: Did You Know?, June 2019 Viewing Circulation History

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on June 26, 2019 - 4:09pm

Did You Know there are several ways to determine the patron who previously had an item checked out if staff needs to contact them regarding damage or for another reason? It is a PrairieCat policy to retain information on the previous three patrons to assist staff with troubleshooting. Circulation history is accessed only from a specific item record.

UPDATE: Online Meetings and Training Location Change

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on June 20, 2019 - 1:52pm

ACTION: Informational

As of July 1, RAILS IT will no longer be supporting meetings via GoTo Meeting and GoTo Training. All meetings and trainings for PrairieCat will now be hosted through Zoom. (If you would like to try it out, you can attend a test meeting here: https://zoom.us/test)

NEWS: PUG Day 2019 Registration Now Open

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on June 17, 2019 - 8:55am

ACTION: Informational

PUG Day 2019 Registration is now open. To register, log-in to L2 using your L2 account login at this link:
https://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=29360

You can view the PUG Day 2019 Agenda here, or in L2. 

NEWS: FY20 PrairieCat Election Results

Submitted by Elizabeth Smith on May 31, 2019 - 7:48am

Action: Informational

Thank you for voting in the FY20 PrairieCat election. Congratulations to the elected members below! All seats are three year terms unless listed differently. All meetings are listed in L2 for registration https://www.librarylearning.info/?LibSys=PCAT and on the PrairieCat website https://support.prairiecat.info/meetings. The meetings are open meetings, so anyone is welcome to attend, but only the 11 members vote.

TRAINING: Did You Know, May 2019 - Linked Patrons

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on May 30, 2019 - 8:49am

This month's Did You Know?  examines linking patrons in Sierra. Linked patrons may be used to link family groups, university graduate assistants, book club patrons or for any other purpose deemed useful by the library. Using this option is a local decision. Linking patrons does not link their fines/fees or block one patron because someone they are linked to is blocked.

ACTION: Informational - Memorial Day (Monday, May 27, 2019)

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on May 13, 2019 - 10:55am

ACTION:  Informational

On Monday, May 27, 2019 PrairieCat & RAILS will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday.

With RAILS being closed for the holiday there will not be any delivery service that day.

PrairieCat emergency on-call support will be available via phone and only for full system outage issues. Our ability to respond to reported issues will be limited due to Memorial Day being a national holiday as our partner organizations; RAILS & Innovative, will also be off that day.

REPORTS: New Item Conversion report for 05/09/2019

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on May 13, 2019 - 8:51am

ACTION: Action Required

Attached are items that have had their Item Type changed from a “new” Item Type to a “regular” Item Type because they have been in the database since before 01/20/19. This report will be added to the Support Site.

All PrairieCat libraries are responsible to access this report and follow up with any items owned by your library on the list.

Here are the proper follow-up steps:

NEWS: PrairieCat RFP for Mobile Application

Submitted by Elizabeth Smith on May 6, 2019 - 10:18am

PrairieCat is soliciting proposals from qualified vendors to provide a mobile application to interface with our Innovative Interfaces Sierra system. Currently, PrairieCat is on V. 4.2.0_7 of Sierra. Any questions and subsequent answers regarding this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) will be posted to this website if received. PrairieCat is entitled to issue written addendum changing this RFP at any time. Please read the attached for more information. 

TRAINING: Did You Know, April 2019 - High Demand Holds

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on April 25, 2019 - 2:18pm

This month's Did You Know explains the High Demand Holds function in Sierra. This function allows you to list titles with holds which have your library as the pickup point and for which there are at least four holds. If you run this for your library, you can see which titles you may need to order additional copies of, and if you run this for all libraries, you can identify some “coming soon” titles you might have missed!

TRAINING: Talent LMS

Submitted by Amanda Augsburger on April 24, 2019 - 11:50am

Talent LMS is an easy to use, cloud based learning management system that allows PrairieCat members to take on-demand, self-paced PrairieCat classes from your library (or anywhere you have access to a computer and internet.) 

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