Reports: August 2007 Archives

The Should Be Short Loan report was updated today (August 16th), and will now be updated on a weekly basis. When the updated report is posted, you'll also receive an email in the library email account as a notification.

An observant librarian (thanks, Barbara!) noticed that yesterday's emailed Search Shelves report was not the Search Shelves Before Billing report, but actually an old version of the Search Shelves Claims Returned... report. Mea culpa!

I believe the problem has been fixed, so today's Search Shelves Before Billing actually contains the data for yesterday's report as well as today's. If you have questions, please let me know.

Again, my apologies!

Starting tomorrow, we're going to start emailing the Search Shelves Before Billing report.

For months now, we've had requests to email reports to libraries, rather than mail them. We wanted to do this shortly after migrating, but haven't had an acceptable way to accomplish this until now. We've just purchased a new software program that allows us to easily email reports, and will be working on converting all mailed OWLSnet reports to email.

Since most of these reports are time-sensitive, we prefer to send these to the library email account (which is accessible to multiple staff members), rather than a personal account which may not be monitored when someone is on vacation.

The library email accounts are in the format:
lib@mail.owls.lib.wi.us (where lib is your van code) OR
lib@mail.nfls.lib.wi.us (where lib is your van code)
and are also used for bookclub holds, patron replies to notices and OWLSnet forms.

If you have problem accessing your library email acount, please call or email Patty Hankey at the OWLS office.

If you have any other questions about emailing reports, please call or email Gerri Moeller at the OWLS office.