Requesting in the Catalogue : from carbon paper to online service

Lynne Billington

Systems Librarian

State Library of New South Wales

carbon paper!

hand writing!

Requesting in the Catalogue

• Already had 182,155 patron records

• Had some loan rules for public libraries

• Circulation mostly done outside Millennium using carbon paper, pens and an ink stamp

• Requesting available items from closed stack or offsite storage for delivery to the reading rooms

Requesting in the Catalogue

NEW AND IMPROVED

• Loan rules, loan rule determiners

• ITYPES

• Location codes

• Locations served

• Hold pickup table, Library priority table

• Web graphics, options, login forms

• Print template hold slip

• Statistics!!!!

Requesting in the Catalogue

SOME ISSUES

• Training in Millennium circulation

• Business process transformation

• Data clean up

• Print templates – sent to Software Engineering

• Stage two – serials, big collections and other messy things

Lynne Billington

State Library of New South Wales

lbillington@sl.nsw.gov.au

(02) 9273 1667