After months of hard work by the PrairieCat Resource Sharing Committee, we are finally ready to begin implementation of the new Item Code 1 values for PrairieCat. Use of the new ICode1 values is mandatory for all PrairieCat libraries in all item records.
The deadline for all PrairieCat library staff who add items and are not currently certified to be barcode certified on Sierra has been *EXTENDED* to December 31, 2013.
The original deadline (June 30, 2013) information on the Barcode Testing page has been updated to reflect extension. This date change was proposed and agreed to at the May 2013 PrairieCat Administrative Counctil meeting.
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.
