Weekly Update, March 13, 2012
Candidates for the Executive Committee
Friday, March 16 is the last day to be considered for one of the open positions on the EC beginning July 1, 2012. Please get in touch with Nick Schenkel (nick@wlaf.lib.in.us) or Krista Ledbetter (kristaq@mail.morg.lib.in.us) if you are interested. More information here. . .
Circulation Tips
The helpdesk recently ran a script under the guidance of the Circulation Committee which cleaned up many email addresses in the patron database which were obviously incorrect. Example: john.doe@aoll.com was corrected to john.doe@aol.com.
The Circulation Committee provided further tips on how to deal with and correct patron addresses. If you get an invalid email address bounce back, copy and paste the exact incorrect email address into an alert in the patron’s record. That way, when the circulation staff asks them for their correct email address, they can verify that it isn’t given to them incorrectly again. Also, many libraries have bounce back emails routed to a different library email address than their main email address so that all of those emails are organized and saved in one place.
If you want to make any changes to the email addresses used at your library, the general library email address used everywhere in the system is set in the Server Settings > Organizational Units > Main Settings > Main Email Address and the individual patron notices email address can be set in the Local Administration module > Library Settings Editor > Sending email address for patron notices (see below).
Meeting announcement
Circulation committee will be meeting on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at Greenwood Public Library.
Circulation committee minutes for November 10, 2012 were approved at the January 17, 2012 meeting.
Cataloging committee minutes for December 6, 2011 were approved at the March 6, 2012 meeting.