June 2007 Archives

Here's a second attempt at creating a "should be short loan" report [pdf]. This report lists only those items that are NOT short loan already. So, if your library's item is listed, it should be changed to short loan. I realize this is not sorted by library name, as a number of you have requested. It's sorted by the number of holds. Since there are still so many very, very popular items that are not coded as short loan, it seemed more important to highlight the most popular titles. But, as usual, comments are eagerly accepted! Items not included on this list are:

* Titles with only 1 or 2 holds
* Titles where the item to hold ratio is less than .3 (there are half as many items as holds)

Please take a look and let me know what you think.

The following decisions were made at the May AAC meeting:

• The next AAC meeting will be held July 13th in Appleton. This meeting has been added to the original schedule.


• Order information (for those libraries using the acquisitions module) will not be displayed in InfoSoup, but will be displayed in staging.


• We agreed to keep users logged into InfoSoup whenever they authenticate. This may mean that patrons in the library will need to be trained to log out of their accounts.


• We will be forming a committee to investigate PC Management systems. Brown County may participate in this. After evaluating the systems benefits and costs, the committee will make recommendation to AAC.


• Billing libraries for long overdue items will be on the next AAC agenda for a decision.


• The libraries will take a 2% increase in membership fees to the library boards for approval.