Approving Recommended Titles

To approve recommended titles, you must be assigned the following permissions:

  • 016 (Read patron suggestions)
  • 045 (Holds management)
  • 101 (View bibliographic records)
  • 102 (Create bibliographic records)
  • 104 (Update bibliographic records)
  • 190 (Process patron suggestions)

See Permissions Used by Sierra for more information.

When you approve a recommendation, its entry is removed from the file of recommendations.

  1. View a recommended title.
  2. With one or more titles selected, choose the Approve button.
    An Approve Recommendations table lists the selected titles and the name of the patrons who made the recommendations.
  3. The system shows the default notification setting for that patron. You can override the default by checking or unchecking the Notify checkbox. The Notify option is disabled for selectors without email addresses in their accounts and for non-selectors without email addresses in their patron records.
  4. To print the Approve Recommendations table, choose Print.
  5. To approve the recommendations and delete them from the file, choose OK. An approval notice is automatically emailed to any selectors or non-selectors who recommended titles on the table and for whom the Notify checkbox was checked. If you are approving more than one title recommended by a patron, the system sends a single email notification for all approved titles rather than a separate notification for each one.
  6. To return to the Recommendations table without approving the titles, choose Cancel.