If you upgrade to Windows 10, you may have to reconfigure your receipt printer settings in Sierra.
The attachment will instruct you how to reset your receipt printers configuration. This will have to be done on all PCs that have receipt printers attached.
This month's Tip of the Month reviews best practices for managing holds for library book clubs. A common problem is not allowing enough time for holds to fill if you place book club holds in advance, and then use a Not Wanted Before Date in the hold record. More tips are included in the attached document.
In case you missed it on social media, PrairieCat celebrated its accomplishments during the "12 Days of PrairieCat." Be sure to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter to stay up to date on member libraries and more!
RAILS will be closed on December 23, December 26, December 30 and January 2 in observance of the Christmas and New Years holidays. PrairieCat will provide emergency phone support on some of those days since libraries are open. Here is the PrairieCat support schedule:
This month’s Tip of the Month is about the use of Location codes in Sierra. Member staff are sometimes confused by the two, three and five letter Branch/Location codes that live in the same table in Sierra. Please share this document with any staff that add or edit items and patrons so they are clear on which code is used in which type of record.
A friendly reminder that per our PrairieCat Technical Bulletin Number: 33, PrairieCat staff will load a submitted file within 48 hours of receipt, unless the file is submitted on the day before a holiday or submitted over the weekend. Files are usually processed quicker than the alotted 48 hours but due to many of PC staff currently out of the office, files are taking longer to get processed. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hestitate to contact us.
Here is list of 2017 weekly magazine title records thus far. Please begin attaching your issues for 2017 for these titles to the new records. Remember you'll need to create new holding records with the textual holdings statment (i.e. RETAINS 6 MONTHS) as well on these titles. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.
This month's tip is a reminder of the PrairieCat policy on placement of barcodes on items. This policy was approved to make handling of materials more efficient as they move between libraries. It also ensures easy scanning of barcodes for libraries that have self-checkout machines. Please remind any staff who processes new materials of this policy.
