By Trish Notartomas
Members of the Circulation-Reserves Expert team recently made the following changes to existing WorkFlows policy descriptions and behavior settings.
1) Under certain circumstances, users would encounter brief, dead-end messages in the CAT. These have now been replaced with more helpful, user-friendly messages:
Instead of Hold Not Allowed, User Blocked or Privilege Has Expired – the message now states: We could not process your request. Please contact your library’s circulation desk or click on “Ask a Librarian” for more information. For library contact information and hours, visit our website: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/home.html
Instead of User Barred – the message now states: We could not process your request. Please visit http://cat.libraries.psu.edu/accept_lendingcode.html to accept library policy for faculty and staff or contact your library’s circulation desk for more information.
2) The following system-generated slips; Checkout, In Transit, and On Hold – were modified and streamlined. In a nutshell, the changes include:
- a rearrangement of the fields so that the important elements appear at the top
- an addition of a Comment field on the On Hold slip
- the removal of the Author field