[aisle] Destiny--Quarantine and Hold requests

Kelly Cook kelly.cook at bps101.net
Fri Mar 19 12:50:50 CDT 2021


Thank you for bringing this up as I have the same questions about holds!

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:48 PM Jennifer Muzzy via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Wise ones!!
>
> We have recently had our Destiny Administrator change a setting to adjust
> all books' status to "Quarantine" for three days after being returned.   I
> thought this would be helpful so kids were not looking for books that were
> "IN" but were on our quarantine carts for three days.  I am trying to
> figure out if they are only counting days that our library is marked as
> "open" on the Destiny calendar, or if all days on the calendar are counted.
>
> Also, I discovered that now when books are checked in, books that have
> holds on them are not giving us the message to hold the book for the person
> who made the request.  So we end up putting books away that are supposed to
> be held for people.  This is making us crazy!  Does anyone have any advice
> for how to handle the quarantine setting and hold situation?  The only
> thing I can think of is to "check in" the quarantined cart of books when
> they change to "available" to have the holds messages pop up, but that does
> not seem very efficient at all.
>
> Looking forward to doing this all in the old regular way (fingers crossed)
> next year.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Jennifer Muzzy
> Librarian
> Riddle Elementary School
> Mattoon, IL 61938
> jennifermuzzy at mcusd2.com
>
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*Kelly Cook *[image: photo]
*Library Director*
*Rotolo Middle School*
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