Formatting Circulation Notices
Sierra offers different ways of formatting circulation notices depending on the notices functionality your library uses.
LX Starter
The Library Experience (LX) Starter package provides an intuitive, web-based interface for your library to design and email automated circulation notices. LX Starter includes professionally designed email templates, which you can customize using a visual email editor. For example, you can add custom branding, free stock photos, and cover images for items in your collection.
LX Starter integrates seamlessly with Sierra. Your library selects which notice types to send using LX Starter. Once enabled, Sierra uses your existing notice jobs to transfer notices to LX Starter, where they are sent based on the schedule your library defines.
LX Starter works with the following notice types:
Sierra 5.6 and later
- Overdue notices (levels 1 - 6)
- Hold pickup notices
- Courtesy notices
- Bills
Sierra 6.0 and later
- Additional courtesy notices
- Recall notices
- Hold cancellation notices
- Pickup and cancellation notices (hold pickup and hold cancellation notices prepared in a single notices job)
- Manual fine notices
- Fine notices
- Adjustment bills
- All bills and fines (manual fines, fines, bills, adjustment bills on a single notice)
- Statement of charges
- Statement of checked-out items
Sierra 6.1 and later
- Repeated bills
For more information, see the LX Starter Administration manual.
Required Settings in Sierra
To use LX Starter with Sierra, your library must have the following settings:
- The Enable Print Templates option set to "YES".
- The Tag of PATRON record field containing the e-mail address field in the Notices: E-mail notice information circulation option must be set to "z".
Print Templates
Sierra's Print Templates provide customizable templates for printing and emailing circulation notices. Each notice type has its own template and data library (a list of data elements that can appear on that notice type). You can define different templates for printed and emailed notices. You can use the default templates provided by Innovative or create customized templates using third-party software.
When customizing a template, your library can do things such as:
- Define what data appears on each notice type.
- Specify the font and layout of the notices.
- Incorporate graphic images.
For more information, see Printing Circulation Notices with Print Templates.
Default Circulation Notices
Sierra's default circulation notices use several circulation options to control the format and layout of these plain-text notices. For example, each element on a notice is a separately defined block of text. Your library determines the size of each block of information and its position on the form. Both print and email notices use the same options. For more information, see Formatting Options for Default Notices.
- See also:
- Notices, Slips, and Messages