Physical Reserves for Fall 2021

Post date: Jul 14, 2021 10:4:1 PM

We’ve started to process physical reserves for Fall 2021. These items will eventually be housed in the new furniture at the LSD, but for now they are being kept on a cart near David’s desk (we arranged this temporary solution with Kim).

Since these items are showing up in the catalog as on reserve and available for checkout, it’s possible (although fairly unlikely) that a patron may want to check them out. I’ve attached instructions for how to identify these items in the catalog and for how to check out and return the items in Alma. Nick is working on setting up the student supervisors with the necessary permissions in Alma. These instructions are temporary; they will change (and become much more streamlined and straightforward!) once Core Systems has made some changes to Alma, and that’s in the works in the next few weeks.

Please review the instructions and let Jessica know if there are any questions or concerns. She’s also happy to answer patron questions; her contact info is printed on the reserves cart. And be on the lookout: Jessica will be sending updated instructions in a few weeks when the changes to Alma have been implemented.

Also: we know that the yellow reserves stickers are terrible and flake off all the time. Sorry about that. We have another solution in the works, and we’ll upgrade the stickers ASAP.

Thanks so much!

Best,

Jenny