• Placing a Single Hold in the Staff Client

    You can place a hold from the staff client catalog from either the search results screen or the individual title and items screen. From the search results, you can click on the Place Hold link to the right of each title to place a title level hold. When you are…

  • Deleting Subscriptions and Items

    Deleting Subscriptions If your library is no longer receiving a serial title you may wish to delete the subscription.  Subscriptions cannot be deleted if there are any “dependent objects” (e.g. Received items)  associated with them.  To delete a subscription for which issues have been received: Find the bib record for…

  • Adding Special Issues

    Occasionally you may receive unanticipated or supplement issues of a serial title.  In these cases: Open the bib record for the serial title Select the “Serials” button then select “Manage Subscriptions” Select the “Manage Issues” tab Select the “Add Special Issue” button Select (or enter) the publication date for the…

  • Managing Subscriptions

    Subscriptions Select the Serials tab from the record summary screen Select “Manage Subscriptions” (Note: if this is the library’s first subscription to this title, a message displays indicating “No subscriptions are owned by this library.” Click on the New Subscription button  Select the start date for the subscription from the…

  • Serials Administration

    Create Serial Item Template Templates are used to create copies when receiving. These templates are similar to regular item templates, but do not contain statistical categories and are stored separately. Serial Item Templates can be created and edited from the Administration–>Serials menu. From the Administration menu: Editing Prediction Pattern Templates…

  • Course Reserves

    Accessing Course Reserves To access Course Reserves  select: Course Reserves tab on the Navigation Bar and select “Course List” Creating Terms Before creating courses, it is recommended that you add at least one academic term. To create a new term: Creating Courses After creating your term(s), start adding courses. Once…

  • Replacing Patron Barcodes

    To replace a patron barcode, if you don’t already have the patron’s record open, you can search for it using the patron search option from the search menu or splash page.  Once you have the patron’s record open, you can click on the Edit option to get to the Patron…

  • Patron Passwords

    When you enter a patron record, you should enter a password and give that information to the patron.  NOBLE provides cards with random passwords on them that you can use, or you can click on the Generate Password for a random four digit PIN.  After you save the record, the…

  • Patron Names

    By policy, we use the patron’s legal name verified by driver’s license or other source, but we can also add preferred names for patrons. The preferred name is searchable, displays in the patron record and is used for notices. Primary and Preferred Names By policy, we use the patron’s legal…