Blog report for 2011

Year 12 leavers

Hi I was hoping that someone could tell me how I would check what year 12 students haven’t returned English textbooks. The English teacher asked if I could check what books haven’t been returned yet. We have already generated a calendar for next year and since roll over the year 12 students are no longer in the system. Having a crash course in Oasis as my library admin has retired…

 

• We still have our Year 12s on Oasis Library. They will be there until Oasis Admin send us the list of the Year 12s who have officially left. It depends on how you operate at your school. For a start it sounds like your Library catalogues English texts. We don’t as it is really the responsibility of individual faculties to look after their texts. (The Department recognises this and actually advises against this). However, if you have ended up in this situation then it will be a lot of extra work with complications. At our school, students must bring around a ‘Leaver’s Form’ and have it signed by Library, English, Maths, etc.If a book is outstanding then the form is not signed and the name of the book and cost are written. Sometimes, students will of course still leave with books outstanding in which case our office sends a letter asking for payment or the return of the books. Sometimes this also means we mark the book as missing and if it does eventually return, then it goes back on the system when returned via the circulation desk.Some schools type the name of the last borrower on Oasis.
  Your school should have had a similar system in place. We have generated a new calendar but the Year 12s are still there. A couple have still not returned books. If you had ‘Leaver’s Forms’ we would assume they are filed somewhere so if the Year 12s are not on Oasis Library then you will have to cross check names with forms. Hope this helps.
   
  • When the list of official Year 12 leavers arrives a ‘Refresh’ is done on Library Oasis.
     

Renewals by list

Go to B2, A1  Borrower details, then <L> for loans out to teacher, <R>enew when arrow against title to be renewed.

Barcode generator

Barcodes for disposing of resources

 

Stocktake checklist

SCIS contact

For issues regarding SCIS use the email contact

scisinfo@esa.edu.au

Computer software, equipment and OASIS

Computer software is normally accessioned on Library OASIS. For full details of the recording of software and other resources use the following link. Note, this link may only be accessible at DEET workplaces via the user’s portal.

https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/finance/schools/smfm/CHAPTER%207_%20Issue13_2011.pdf

Leavers and barcode lists

I am updating my student barcode lists for borrowing, following the release notes 7.0. The barcode lists are becoming quite long as past students who have left remain on the library system. When I refresh students (B4; R3) should I indicate ‘Y’ next to the option ‘Remove students who have left and have no current loans’? Is this the best way to get around this? If a student comes back will this cause a problem? As a new TL I have not used this option before but the barcode lists are just becoming too long. 

Select “Y” to the prompt “Remove students who have left & have no current loans”. If those students later return to your school they will pick up where they left off. All data is attached to their ERN and so when that is transferred back on to your school then even their borrowing record is reactivated. This applies even if your library does not use ERN (student code) as your borrower ID barcode numbers.

Websites and barcode