When PrairieCat migrated to Sierra last July, roughly two hundred items had been coded by staff has having been Lost and Paid For. When the items were migrated into Sierra the Status was set to 5/LOST-PAID TEMP, because the Lost-Paid process took place outside of Sierra. A listing of these items has been created and is available in an Excel file (see below).
It is strongly recommended that if these items are nowy ready to be removed from the database, that you follow TSUG procedures for coding the items for withdrawal.
When PrairieCat migrated to Sierra last July, hundreds of items were sitting on your Hold shelves awaiting pickup by patrons. Because these holds were trapped in our legacy system, when the items were migrated into Sierra the Status was set to 3/Hold Shelf TEMP. A listing of these items has been created and is available in an Excel file (see below).
The handout on using Reporter to answer some of your Illinois Public Library Annual Report (IPLAR) questions is now available on the PrairieCat website.
A new version of the PrairieCat Circulation Users Group combined Policy and Procedure Manual has been uploaded to the PrairieCat Support Site. The Manual can be found under Documentation (you have to be logged into the site first with your L2 account to see further) Circulation, Policy & Procedure. The latest version of the Manual is dated November 2012.
The PrairieCat Sustainability Committee is asking all PrairieCat PUBLIC LIBRARY members to please send in section 9 only of your last three Illinois Public Library Annual Reports (IPLARs) by May 7. This has to do with the new membership tiers now in place for PrairieCat (Union List, Basic Online and Fully Participating) and verifying a library's eligibility for each tier based on their IPLAR data.
RAILS vehicular deliveries - Regular school deliveries will END as of Friday, May 17, 2013. If this date does not quite work with your school calendar and you need to end deliveries sooner, request deliveries after this date, or earlier or later in the fall, please contact your delivery hub manager to tweak the schedule for your district.
In response to some great suggestions at last week's CUG meeting, there are now three different possible sorts on the list of PrairieCat members under the Members menu on the new PrairieCat website. You can now choose a tab to sort by library name, Sierra (PrairieCat) code or RAILS delivery code. We hope you will find this useful as you are routing materials or identifying a library you need to contact.
Please continue to offer suggestions of how we can make the new website more useful!
Several members shared some tips and tricks they've learned using Sierra after the CUG meeting this week so we've provided them below. Please continue to share ideas like this until we're all completely comfortable with all Sierra functionality!
