From Order to Check Out: Improving Workflows through Acquisitions, Cataloging, and Circulation

Abstract

Jackie Wrosch, Systems Librarian, Eastern Michigan University.

This presentation will address how our library has recently improved Voyager workflows through all departments and modules to get books to the shelf and patron more quickly. Changes include automating all downloading and bulk importing of records, new reports for staff, scripts to detect double MFHDs, creating offline charge files to allow the placement of Holds on these items and improving the OPAC display. The audience will learn why we needed to do so, how it has impacted both staff and patrons, and how they might adapt these procedures and scripts for their own environments.