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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:45:29 CST
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- From: Tony New <NEW@LIBRARY.UTA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: comp wrong & restraint
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- Hello Terry,
-
- > Would like to hear the prevailing wisdom from Circ gurus on the
- > problem of
- > patrons who claim they did not check something out that NOTIS has recorded as
- > one of their charges.
-
- In the charge out mode, the NOTIS program allows you to scan a
- patron's barcode in the ITEM field. This triggers the program to
- "rollover" to the new patron without pressing whatever function key
- you have assigned to start the charge out mode <F7 here>. This is
- intended to be used during high traffic periods as a timesaver.
-
- Here at UTA we feel that this opens the door to just such a situation
- as you describe. We do NOT inform the student workers of this
- capability and most staff do not know of it either. Our procedure is
- to completely clear the screen after each patron then re-enter the
- charging mode. This procedure, we feel, lowers the odds of the
- situation you describe occuring to almost zero.
-
- > Please help me lighten up on this .... foul weather has
- > kept me off my motor for four weeks now and I am having a hard time
- > resisting
- > the impulse to grab these folks (2) by the throat and denounce them
- > as liars ..
- > .. not a good situation.
-
- On a lighter note: <grin> May I suggest a margarita or a primal
- scream. (it works, I promise!) :-)
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