Checking In Items with Special Conditions Using the SIP2 Circulation Interface

If your library has acquired the SIP2 Circulation Interface and uses SelfCheck units to check items in, by default the system does not check in items with the following special conditions:

To enable SelfCheck units to automatically check in these items, you can request that Innovative enable the SIP2 Checkin of Items with Special Conditions feature. When using this feature to check in items, SelfCheck units automatically do the following:

When checking in: The system:

Items with holds at the checkin location that need to be added to the holdshelf
  1. Checks in the item.
  2. Writes a message to the screen message field of the SIP2 Checkin Response.
  3. Displays the call number in the SIP2 Checkin Response.
  4. Sets the Alert flag in the SIP2 Checkin Response.
  5. Changes the item's STATUS to '!' (ON HOLDSHELF).

Items that need to be set in transit to their owning locations
  1. Checks in the item.
  2. Writes a message to the screen message field of the SIP2 Checkin Response.
  3. Displays the call number in the SIP2 Checkin Response.
  4. Adds the owning location code to the permanent location field of the SIP2 Checkin Response.
  5. Sets the Alert flag in the SIP2 Checkin Response.
  6. Changes the item's STATUS to 't' (IN TRANSIT).
  7. If the item is:
    • set in transit to fulfill a hold, the system adds the pickup location code and the barcode of the patron for whom the item is being held to the destination location field of the SIP2 Checkin Response.
    • set in transit for a reason other than to satify a hold, the system adds the destination location code to the destination location field of the SIP2 Checkin Response.

Overdue items for which the patron owes fines
  1. Checks in the item.
  2. Adds the fines to the patron's record.

Items that are already checked in

Does not check in the item or display an error message.
Note that all four behaviors listed above are included in the SIP2 Checkin of Items with Special Conditions feature. If you elect to enable this feature, you cannot selectively allow the checkin of only certain special conditions and keep others blocked.