Checking In an Item at the Owning Location for Hold Pickup Elsewhere

To automate the process of checking in items that belong to your location and are to be set in transit to a pickup location, set the following circulation options:

For more information, see Streamlining Checkin.

Automatically Printing Transit Slips

If you always want to print a transit slip for items that are set in transit, you can have your system configured to automatically print transit slips. To request automatic transit slip printing, contact Innovative.

When you check in an item that belongs to your location and is to be set in transit to a pickup location (i.e., the item has a hold at a non-owning location), the system displays information about the hold and prompts you to set the item's status to one of the following:

IN TRANSIT to <pickup location>
Sets the item in transit and prompts you to print a transit slip.
ON HOLDSHELF
Places the item on the holdshelf at the pickup location and responds as if you were checking in the item at its pickup location.
Cancel
Neither sets the item in transit nor places the item on the holdshelf.

Checking In Items when Options Are Streamlined

If you always place held items on the holdshelf, or if the pickup locations in your library system are not located within the same building and therefore you always put items in transit to their pickup location, your library can streamline the system to do one the following:

Automatically Set the Item In Transit

To configure the system so owned items that are to go in transit to their pickup location are automatically set in transit, set the relevant circulation options as follows:

Circulation Option

Setting

Check-in: Check-in at wrong location

ALLOWED

Check in hold at owning loc, pickup elsewhere

PLACE ITEM IN TRANSIT

If your library has configured the system to automatically set owned items in transit to their pickup location, and you check in an owned item that satisfies a hold at another pickup location, the system:

Automatically Set the Item In Transit and Print a Transit Slip

To configure the system so owned items that are to go in transit to their pickup location are automatically set in transit and a transit slip automatically prints, set the relevant circulation options as follows:

Circulation Option

Setting

Check-in: Check-in at wrong location

ALLOWED

Check in hold at owning loc, pickup elsewhere

PLACE ITEM IN TRANSIT

Check-in: Streamlined Check-in at wrong location

YES


Automatic Transit Slip Printing

To configure the system to automatically print the transit slip, streamline the options for setting an owned item in transit and then contact Innovative and request automatic transit slip printing.

If your library has fully streamlined the checkin of owned items that are to go in transit to their pickup location and you check in an owned item that satisfies a hold at another pickup location, the system:

The system does not display any of the prompts relevant to these tasks.

Automatically Place the Item on the Holdshelf

To configure the system so owned items that are to go in transit to their pickup location are automatically placed on the holdshelf, set the relevant circulation options as follows:

Circulation Option

Setting

Check-in: Check-in at wrong location

ALLOWED

Check in hold at owning loc, pickup elsewhere

PLACE ITEM ON HOLDSHELF

If your library has configured the system to automatically place on the holdshelf owned items that are to go in transit to their pickup location, and you check in an owned item that satisfies a hold at another pickup location, the system:


See also:
Streamlining Checkin
Setting an Item In Transit
Determining Item Destination at Checkin
Transit Slips
Hold Slips
Checking In an Item that Can Satisfy a Hold
Checking In an Item that Satisfies an INN-Reach Hold