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Expiring Guest Borrowers during COVID closure

Posted on April 7, 2020 by kim

For Guests with books who need renewals and whose accounts are expiring between now and our reopening, here is what we will do: Update their expiration in their patron record to June 14, 2020.  Renew the materials.  June 1 will … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Cleaning the physical collection after a pandemic

Posted on March 30, 2020 by kim

Here are links discussing how to clean a circulating library collection after a pandemic. How to Sanitize Collections in a Pandemic [American Libraries] NEDCC recommendations for disinfecting circulating collections Continue reading →

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Reference Staff during #coronavirus

Posted on March 20, 2020 by kim

From Susan: Nicole will now be working on Sunday to cover Haydee. Her hours will be: Sunday: 4 pm – 9 pm Monday: 12 pm – 5 pm Tuesday: 12 pm – 5 pm Wednesday: 12 pm – 5 pm … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Weekend Reference Desk Schedule

Posted on March 6, 2020 by kim

While classes are in session, this is the statandard Reference desk schedule. Saturday: Nico Sunday: Nico 2pm-7pm, Haydee 7pm-closing Continue reading →

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Printing Refunds – update

Posted on October 17, 2019 by kim

From Norm: I just received an email from Lisa Washko (the manager of the Student Technology Center), regarding some of the recent anomalies we’ve seen with the Pharos system, such as students being overcharged for print jobs, PDF’s not printing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Adding Public Note to PRIMO

Posted on September 18, 2019 by kim

We have shelf notes in Primo for most of the Course Reserves books. If you need to add a public note, this is what you do: In ALMA: 1) Search PHYSICAL ITEMS:  Scan item barcode 2) From the three dots: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Patron ROLE expired!

Posted on September 13, 2019 by kim

We got this error message this morning.  Patron records in ALMA have MULTIPLE points of expiration.  There is the actual Expiration Date, the PURGE date and hidden in all of the roles in ALMA there is an expiry date for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Update on Guest Access computer terminals

Posted on July 24, 2019 by kim

We are back to four operational Guest terminals.  They are located at: Two on the first floor by Starbucks Stack 6 Stack 7  *(This one used to be on Stack 8) Continue reading →

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Government Documents

Posted on July 5, 2019 by kim

When I configured Alma, I purposely left out the Government Documents, since the collection was being withdrawn from our library. In the intervening years, we have had some patrons who wanted to borrow certain titles, which always made this a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Limits on Patron borrowing

Posted on April 23, 2019 by kim

As with Millennium, certain patron types had restrictions on how many items they can have out at one time. All Faculty groups/Staff and PhD students have unlimited access. Other students types:  Undergrad, Grad and Cont. Ed (both Undergrad/Grad) are allowed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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