Please DO NOT renew interloans on Horizon.

The Central Library Interloans Team are the only staff able to do this as the Horizon renewal (while technically possible) is not effective as it is only the lending library who can grant an extension, and only Interloans staff who know which library to contact. There are also many items sent to us on Interloan that have a ‘no renewal’ restriction.

This item is being blogged as there was recently an occasion where 3 interloans were renewed on Horizon unbeknown to the Interloans Team. It was only when overdue notices with talks of fines were received from the lending library that the Horizon renewals were discovered – without the coding that the Interloans Team use to identify renewals they action.

When a MARKER on the Central Library Interloans Reference Only Hold Shelf informs you that the item is held in the Level 3 Reading Room…

Very occasionally Reference Only Interloans are supplied to University of Canterbury staff and students with a Reading Room restriction placed on the loan by the lending library. These Reference Only Interloans cannot be read in a public area with some also having a ‘no photocopying’ restriction.

The user will be informed that his/her item has arrived and is available for consultation in the Reading Room on Level 3 where Robin and Bronwyn will supervise use. He/she has also been advised of the days and times that the Reading Room is open. Interloans staff will monitor the due dates as they do for normal Reference Only Interloans.

The MARKER with the user’s name is placed on the Central Library Interloans Reference Only Hold Shelf just in case the user does not read his/her notification correctly and comes to the Lending Desk and asks for their interloan. If this does happen desk staff can redirect the user.

If students are fully enrolled they should be able to view their personal timetable through StudentWeb. Their timetable won’t display if they haven’t used the calendar to click on a week when lectures are taking place.
If they want the whole week’s timetable, click on the word Week!

Students can buy at Metro card at the Shelley Common Room with a $10 top up today (Friday) and Monday.

After consultation with Janette, I am about to change where the Journals link in the left navigation bar of every web page goes to. It will now go to the Serials Solutions journals page http://gr2tq4rz9x.search.serialssolutions.com/, instead of our intermediary page http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/journals/

The addition of print holdings to the Serials Solutions lists has meant that this is now the easiest way for users to search for journals, as print and electronic holdings are displayed from the one record. Our print holdings will be updated regularly, and while the holdings are not 100% comprehensive, they are comprehensive enough. Missing records are either really old or very ephemeral, and are the types of records that probably needed specialist assistance and knowledge to find on the catalogue. Work on the print journal uploads has been done, and decisions about what is included in the uploads have been made in close consultation with Collection Services.

My apologies for the lateness of the change-over; I am acutely aware that it is far too close to the start of term for comfort. We had unexpected delays in getting the Serials Solutions page to the point where it could be used for this link. It was decided that it was better to do it today than sometime after term was started.

Catherine