Follett VERSION 6.00, User Manual

Page: 473 / 730

04/04 Chapter 35 Using your OPAC 473
Patrons with printed barcodes can use a scanner to enter the information.
Neither field is case-sensitive; the patron can enter upper- or lower-case
letters, regardless of the case used in Patron Maintenance.
If you chose Birth Date as the password, the patron must use the
MMDDYYYY format. For example, for May 13, 1990, the patron must enter
05131990
. The patron should not enter any slashes, dashes, or spaces.
The patron must enter the entire contents of the field. For example, if you
chose Last Name as the password, then John Adams, Jr., whose patron record
has Adams, Jr." in the Last Name field, must enter
adams, jr.
not
adams
.
For privacy, the password entry is masked by asterisks.
Viewing My Info
If the patron selects My Info, the Patron Information dialog appears after a
successful login:
Patrons have access to three of the
seven tabs in the Patron Information
dialog: Checkouts, Fines, and Holds.
They cannot edit any of the information;
it is read-only.
In addition, the Help button is
not available.
The dialog is the same one displayed in Circulation Desk and Patron
Maintenance. In the OPAC, however, only three of the seven tabs appear:
Checkouts, Fines, and Holds.
On the Fines tab, any fine notes you created do not appear. If you chose to
automatically calculate fines (in System Setup | Setup | Circulation | Fines) and
the patron has any pending fines, the Fines tab includes a note containing the
current pending fine amount for overdue items not yet returned.
If you allowed (on the OPAC General Setup tab) patrons to print, they can print
the information on the three tabs.
Placing holds or reserves
A patron can place a hold or reserve from three different windows in OPAC: the
selection list, the record display window, and the Bookbag (if enabled). The