FAQ's for Support:
What happens if a shipped item is never received? Is there
a way to cancel the request? Does it stay in status Shipped indefinitely?
The shipped item is on a 56 day loanrule; at the end of 56 days
it would generate a bill; the lending library sees that the request
has never been received; the lending library negotiates with the
borrowing library, which is technically responsible for the lent
item though they never recieved it, according to VC policy (see
www.massvc.org/policies). They forgive the bill or receive a replacement,
or are paid; andthen instruct the borrowing library to set it to
received and returned, artificially since the patron never received
the item, and then the lending library completes. This is the only
way to get the request to go away.
What to do if a book which a patron requested, never arrives
at my library?
Make a new request on behalf of the patron, contact the courier
(see left margin of Delivery
Routing Directory) and contact the lending library to say the
item never arrived; and to try to figure out where it is by checking
shelves at both libraries (see www.massvc.org/policies).
What to do if one does not know the borrowing library and
needs to contact them?
The best thing to do is to contact the helpdesk (vc.helpdesk@umb.edu
or 617-287-5926) or contact the central site if a your library is
a member of a network. The helpdesk can look it up (usually) via
request inquiry: the central site can look for it in the list of
incoming requests. Alternately, login as staff and do a request
inquiry on an unusual word in the title or author, using this method:
Cut off the first and last letters of the unusual word and replace
them with percent signs, for example, Massachusetts becomes: %assachusett%
as a title or author search. The percent sign is an SQL wildcard.
What if a patron receives an Internal Server Error after clicking
Searching/Requesting? (cross reference) See this page
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