Checking In an INN-Reach Item from a Patron

When the patron returns an INN-Reach item to your site, you must check it in prior to returning it to the owning site. To check in an INN-Reach item from a patron:

1. Choose Check-In (No Patron) from the Functions drop-down list.
2. Scan or enter the item's barcode, or if Item Status API and the RFID Checkout and Checkin of INN-Reach Items feature are enabled, place the item on your RFID pad. The system:
   1. Displays the following message:
      
      
      Item belongs to 9bayl
      
      
   2. Does one of the following, depending on your system settings:
      • If your library has enabled the Streamlined Check-in feature, the system checks in the item without further messages.
      • If your library has not enabled the Streamlined Check-in feature, the system displays the check-in prompt. Continue to the next step.
3. Choose CHECK-IN. The system prompts you to queue an INN-Reach transit slip to be printed later. For example:
   
   
   Item belongs to 9bayl
   Print transit slip?
   
   
4. Proceed as appropriate:
   • To queue an INN-Reach transit slip for later printing, choose Yes.
   • To continue without queueing an INN-Reach transit slip, choose No.
   The system checks in the item and displays it in the summary table. In the summary view, checked-in items display with a blank status. To see details about the checked-in virtual item, right-click on the item, and select the View Virtual Item option. The virtual item's STATUS displays as '%' (RETURNED).

How Checking In an INN-Reach Item from Your Patron Works

When you check in an INN-Reach item from your patron, the system:

• Updates the STATUS of the virtual item record to RETURNED (%).

  A status of RETURNED (%) does not prevent you from checking out the item to the patron again. For example, if you check in an INN-Reach item when you intended to renew the item, you can effectively renew the item by checking it out to the patron again. Note that, unlike renewing the item, this additional checkout does not cause the system to update the due date at the owning site.

• Sends a circulation message to the owning site.

When the owning site receives this circulation message, the system:

• Updates the INN-Reach message in the item record to the following:
  
  
  00-00-00 IN TRANSIT from check-in site to owning site
  
  The check-in site element can be either the patron site or the site to which the Pickup Anywhere location belongs.
• Retains OFF-SITE (@) as the item status.

See also:

Checking In Items

Viewing Virtual Items