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Day 2 of Evergreen migration
Mar. 16th, 2012 06:06 pmNastiest surprise today? You can't do anything regarding items in the collection without having the barcode numbers for them. To get that barcode, you can search for the item, which is typing, then clicking, followed by scrolling down, clicking, more scrolling, and more clicking. Then you should be able to copy to the mouse and paste back in the field for whatever you were trying to do in the first place. But, it's no guarantee that you will have anything that confirms the title of that barcode while you're working with it.
Also, the whole deal with fines is insane- assessing, paying, overriding, calculating, everything. Plus, staff has lost our benefit of never being charged fines, and of having a longer loan period for movies. In other words, we now have ZERO patron benefits of working at the library. Oh, the fines (if incurred) can be forgiven, but that takes overrides, and so on.
I believe the thing that patrons will find most divisive is the deal where you can set holds to lapse while you're out of town, then when you reactivate them it will jump you back to the original order you had in the hold queue. So, the people who want to know what rank they are in the hold queue for the hot DVD titles will only know their number at any given moment, without being able to count on actually moving up in the rank.
We spent the afternoon today checking in the returns that had built up over the week, and doing some reshelving. And lots and lots and LOTS of troubleshooting. There are some seriously strange things that we had better be able to fix (our library has not charged fines on books for decades, and yet checking in the books from ILL generated ten-cent-per-day fines, as one example). But, we have already been blocked from the old ILS (which we had been told would not happen for a couple of weeks, to help with glitches from the migration) so we will have to make it work.
As for me, I am going to enjoy my four-day weekend. And yes, maybe call OPERS Monday, to see if there is ANY possible way I might be able to take my retirement this May, after all. Because two days of sitting on hard wooden chairs has really done a number on my arthritis.
Also, the whole deal with fines is insane- assessing, paying, overriding, calculating, everything. Plus, staff has lost our benefit of never being charged fines, and of having a longer loan period for movies. In other words, we now have ZERO patron benefits of working at the library. Oh, the fines (if incurred) can be forgiven, but that takes overrides, and so on.
I believe the thing that patrons will find most divisive is the deal where you can set holds to lapse while you're out of town, then when you reactivate them it will jump you back to the original order you had in the hold queue. So, the people who want to know what rank they are in the hold queue for the hot DVD titles will only know their number at any given moment, without being able to count on actually moving up in the rank.
We spent the afternoon today checking in the returns that had built up over the week, and doing some reshelving. And lots and lots and LOTS of troubleshooting. There are some seriously strange things that we had better be able to fix (our library has not charged fines on books for decades, and yet checking in the books from ILL generated ten-cent-per-day fines, as one example). But, we have already been blocked from the old ILS (which we had been told would not happen for a couple of weeks, to help with glitches from the migration) so we will have to make it work.
As for me, I am going to enjoy my four-day weekend. And yes, maybe call OPERS Monday, to see if there is ANY possible way I might be able to take my retirement this May, after all. Because two days of sitting on hard wooden chairs has really done a number on my arthritis.
