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Kate from the mail room called today.  It seems that we can only use the blue insurance labels when we insure something OVER $200.  I have pulled the blue slips and they will be in my middle desk drawer if you need it.

From now on use the BLACK insurance labels.  We will be getting more from the mail room.

Since we all know that I am an avid recycler, I find it very difficult to make this statement, but I must.

Effective immediately, we will not reuse any US Mail Priority boxes, any boxes from any of the dedicated shippers, such as UPS, Fedex and DHL.

If you find them in the mail, you can get rid of them.

Thanks, Kim

Reminder:  If the origination date of the renewal request is BEFORE April 15, 2008, it will not automatically download into ILLiad.  The only renewal requests that will download are the requests that were imported by the ISO connection, which started on April 15.

So, for the old requests, we can handle them the old way and just be sure to update the request manually in both  ILLiad and  reQuest.

We have found a known glitch between ILLiad and reQuest!  The BILLING information refuses to stay the way we format it from day to day.

For example:  Let’s say our favorite library orders a book from us and we change the billing info on their record.  For the sake of the arguement, this is the only request that they send during our time in ILLiad with the ISO requests.  Tomorrow, when they send us a new request, all the billing information that we have edited will be gone and is overwritten by what is pulled in overnight.  Now, if you change their info and find a second request in that same session, the changes will remain.

So, it does not seem to me that we should worry about editing the BILLING information, since it will be overwritten with the next request.

Hi Everyone,

Since we have gone “live” with the ISO link, we have discovered that due to the different timings between the two systems, we are currently unable to print the C-CAR slips from reQuest.

Why, you ask?  Well, ILLiad runs it’s ISO every two minutes, but reQuest doesn’t update as quickly, so the books will be in the back room and packed and ready to go, before reQuest has been updated.

So:  STUDENTS:  On each slip, cut out the area from the CCAR address down and tape it to the CCAR slips we have in the back.  Be sure to date the slip and to check off the box that says it is a reQuest ILL.

This is a FYI-I have turned the billing manager on!  Chris and I will be generating invoices today.  My grand plan would be to run the invoices on a weekly basis.