Overdues-leavers and refresh

Is there a way of printing out “write offs” from kids who either don’t sign out, or “go bush”, or but take our books with them. In some cases we don’t actually get a forwarding address, or they go to some private school that is outside our network. They inevitably do take to good books with them, but we’re getting close to several hundred dollars at this stage, so while I’m glad they like the resources it’s an expensive sponsorship.

Yes, we do have a form in the school that includes checking with the library to sign out, but it just doen’t always happen. I know supposedly they do have to sign out before the next school can accept them.

So, is there any report to be able to print out  these borrowers and their book details to highlight the problem?

When you do a Refresh Students one of the options is to “Remove students who have left and have no current loans?” default is “N” change to “Y” (don’t ask me why the default is set to “no”.)
After the refresh is complete you get a report of “Students unable to be deleted due to outstanding loans”.

 

That is the only report set up to produce a list of students who are still on OASIS Library with outstanding loans but have been remove from Admin & therefore cannot be automatically removed from OASIS Library.

 

 

Master date

You can edit the master date in the first area you open up in B2D2. Just go <E>Edit. This will stop borrowing before the end of the year.
The part you are looking at (<L> Loans) gives the opportunity for other “master dates” and loan periods – (eg the ability to call back teacher loans at the end of each term). To have a master date, you need to leave the (DAYS) field blank, then you can insert a date.

Can you also give instructions for Master due date changes please?

Go into B2 D2, move the cursor next to the borrower type that you want to change the due dates for & select L = Loans. A list of  all the loan types & due dates for that particular borrower. Move the cursor next to the o9ne that you want to change the due date for & select E = Edit. You can then change the number of days in the loan period, press Enter & the due date will change to match that loan period.

You will need to repeat this for all the borrower & loan types that need changing.

Overdues- Leavers and refresh

Is there a way of printing out “write offs” from kids who either don’t sign out, or “go bush”, or but take our books with them. In some cases we don’t actually get a forwarding address, or they go to some private school that is outside our network. They inevitably do take to good books with them, but we’re getting close to several hundred dollars at this stage, so while I’m glad they like the resources it’s an expensive sponsorship.

Yes, we do have a form in the school that includes checking with the library to sign out, but it just doen’t always happen. I know supposedly they do have to sign out before the next school can accept them.

So, is there any report to be able to print out  these borrowers and their book details to highlight the problem?

When you do a Refresh Students one of the options is to “Remove students who have left and have no current loans?” default is “N” change to “Y” (don’t ask me why the default is set to “no”.)
After the refresh is complete you get a report of “Students unable to be deleted due to outstanding loans”.

That is the only report set up to produce a list of students who are still on OASIS Library with outstanding loans but have been remove from Admin & therefore cannot be automatically removed from OASIS Library.

Overdues, Printing of

Due to some cabling work going on in the library at the moment (hammering & drilling through concrete are great background noise!), I had to rethink how to print out overdue notices that I wanted done today, as my computer couldn’t connect to the printer it normally goes to. Anyway, upshot was that I now have my overdue notices and they are now printed in a slightly larger font! Making it a little easier on the eyes.

To do this all you need to do is when the window opens up with the overdue notices after you’ve selected P = Print, choose “Save” and then save as a web page (it is the default, you don’t get a choice of file type) onto you computer (I selected desktop). Minimise OASIS, and open the file on the desktop – it’ll be the one that has a Firefox symbol and an 8 digit number. Now print it.