A request made on a 3 day or one day item offers no choice other than pick up from it’s home location. By this we mean a specific branch library. However, as we all know, each branch runs Horizon ‘a’ location on one of it’s CKI PCs. This means there is always a possibility that a daily loan belonging to a specific branch can be checked in any branch PC running ‘a’ location and declare itself ‘home’.

This is why we all label our 3 day and 1 day loans with a distinctive spine label. Education is lime green, PSL green, Law yellow, EL an orange strip and CL an orange square.

Horizon does not provide any real clues to say which Hold shelf a daily loan is on and reports don’t help either. So, here’s a reminder to keep an eye on the labels festooning the items on your hold shelves to catch the wandering stock from other branches.

Thank you to the alert staff who helped us find our wandering stock this week!

Helen