GIL EXPRESS YOURSELF!

GUGM 2014

Mollie Armour, Daron Mitchell, and Mary Poland

We’ve selected some topics for discussion that came up in the survey.

Each slide contains a topic or two, and we’ve supplied our take on the issue with some potential answers/solutions, but we want to hear your ideas too!

We weren’t able to include everything, but we tried to address the big stuff. If there’s something you want to discuss that we don’t bring up, there should be time at the end.

We want this to be a discussion, not a lecture– interrupt us at any time!

THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THE SURVEY!

Misdirected books Discharge it and route to the intended location.

Diff erentiating between similarly names schools DaRton & DaLton?

How and when to update your Callslip INI fi le After updates, on EVERY computer.

How to print STAT and ILL labels Use pdfs instead of mail merge?

ROUTING ISSUES

LOST STATUS PROCEDURES

A new report where you can see what is outstanding

What do I do when I don’t receive a bill or don’t get a response from another library? Rely on the contact list.

How do I know when it’s time for institutional billing? Calendar is on GE staff resource page.

INSTITUTIONAL BILLING

https://gil.uga.edu/reports/

After searches have been carried out at both schools, we discharge it to get it out of transit, mark it missing, and put a lengthy note on the record. It’s up to you if you want to contact STAT as a last resort.

MISSING IN TRANSIT

Use GIL Classic

On the request page where you verify your Institution ID, a dropdown menu appears when there are multiple volumes.

HOW TO REQUEST SPECIFIC VOLUMES

A grace period could allow people to renew GIL Express books, even when they’re overdue---which could prevent weird due date times from tripping up patrons.

To change a policy like this, a majority of USG Libraries would have to agree to something new, and then it would need to be presented to RACL (Regents Academic Committee on Libraries).

GRACE PERIOD BEFORE AUTOMATIC BLOCK

What else would you like to change about GIL Express?

Number of renewals Processing fees ?

What changes would you like to see on the GIL Express Staff Resource Page?

WHAT DO WE WANT IN THE FUTURE?