Latest ILL enhancements

The NHAIS ILL System will be offline for up to 15 minutes starting at 10 o'clock tonight (Thursday, April 1) to install program updates. Among the fixes and enhancements:

-When the Pick List configuration was set to print “New Requests Only,” changing the sort order caused the requests to be deleted from the print view so the list could not be printed as a Pick List. (This did not occur when the Pick List configuration was set to include “New and Printed Request”.) This has been corrected so the print sort order can be changed for any Pick List and printed.

-When “Forgot Your Password” was used on the Login screen, the dropdown to select your library was not allowing users to select a library. This has been corrected.

-While we encourage lenders to change Pending requests to Shipped or Will Not Supply as soon as possible, we know that some lenders hold onto incoming requests using the Will Supply/In Process status. A new option is being added to cover the circumstance where a request remains in Will Supply/In Process while the requested item is sent to the borrower and then returned to the lender. In order for that to happen, the lender would have to forget to change the request to Shipped and the borrower would also have to leave the Will Supply/In Process status unchanged (Received is an option for the borrower even if the request was never changed to Shipped). That should never happen but if it does the lender will now have the option to choose Force Check In when the requested material comes back home.

Choosing Force Check In will cause statistics to be updated for the borrower and lender to indicate that the request was filled and is now Complete. The request history will show the request as having moved through the workflow of being Shipped and then checked in.

-MARC subfield 386a (Creator/Contributor Characteristics) has been added to the General Keyword index. Field 386 is relatively new (2013) and currently appears in very few NHU-PAC records. Here's an example for author Kate Anderson Brower (from the NHU-PAC record for the first edition of First in Line):

386  ǂm Gender group: ǂn gdr ǂa Women ǂ2 lcdgt
386  ǂm Nationality/regional group: ǂn nat ǂa Americans ǂ2 lcdgt
386  ǂm Occupational/field of activity group: ǂn occ ǂa Journalists ǂ2 lcdgt