Follett VERSION 6.00, User Manual

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Starting circulation mode and setting the date
To collect remote circulation data with the PHD:
1. Turn on your PHD (see page 657). From the PHD main menu, press
C
(Circulation). A message appears asking if you want to change the date and
time. If the date and time are correct, press
SP
(No) and skip to Checking
out and renewing items" below or Checking in items" below.
Important:
Circulation Desk processes transactions based on the month and
day you entered them into the PHD. The year is pulled from the
workstation's system date. To ensure that your statistics are
accurate, we recommend that you upload the PHD data to
Circulation Desk on the same day as the transaction.
2. If you need to change the date and time, press
ENTER
(Yes). The ENTER
CURRENT TIME prompt appears. Enter the correct hour and minutes, and
press
ENTER
after each. At the prompt, either press
A
to indicate AM or
P
for
PM. Follow the prompts to enter the current month (1-12), date (1-31), and
year (0-99). Press
ENTER
after each step.
If you want to check out items, see the following section. If you need to check
in items, see Checking in items" on page 663.
Checking out and renewing items
1. To checkout or renew items, once you've accepted or changed the date, the
CHECKOUT? prompt appears. Press
ENTER
(Yes).
2. The SCAN PATRON prompt appears. To select the patron borrowing or
renewing the copies, scan or type the patron's barcode. (After typing a
barcode, press
ENTER
to save it.)
Note:
If your library uses patron IDs rather than a defined barcode
symbology, you can type them into your PHD by pressing
SHIFT
.
SHIFT
(shift, period, shift), which generates a forward slash, then
typing the ID number.
3. The SCAN BARCODE prompt appears. To check out a copy to the selected
patron, scan or type the copy barcode. Repeat this step for each item the
current patron is checking out or renewing.
To change patrons, press
D
(Exit) and repeat steps 2 and 3 until you are
finished checking out items.
If you want to switch to checkin, press
D
(Exit) until you return to the PHD main
menu. Press
C
(Circulation) to reenter circulation mode, press
SP
(No) to accept
the time and date, and then continue with the following section, Checking in
items."
When you are finished with the PHD, press
D
(Exit) until you return to the PHD
main menu, and then turn off the PHD to conserve the battery charge.
Important:
Transfer the data to Circulation Desk as soon as possible (page 176),
and then erase the scans from your PHD (page 664).