CARL

In August we made the move to allow Library by Mail guests to place holds on material in branch BM. However, we realized BM guests only had access to a small portion of the Outreach collection at the Service Center. Currently, Outreach consists of three branch collections: Book Centers (BC), Books by Mail (BM), and Outreach (OR). 

I am excited to share we have two new courses on CARL in MetroU:  

• CARL.Connect User Searching 
• CARL.Connect Create New User 

These courses are perfect for staff who use CARL.Connect at Outreach events or for staff wanting to expand their comfort level in CARL.Connect.  

Background

TLC has no development and no plan for development to prevent notices from being generated and mailed to accounts with a known bad address.

The Problem

The "MakerSpace" wording in CARL under "Statistics" has been renamed to "Waiver". 

With the launch of the Gardening Grant and Library of Things tools and tool kits, we want to have one generic place in CARL to track the waiver. Staff are still directed to ONLY use “Waiver” if they have a guest in front of them wanting to checkout a gardening tool/kit or use the Makerspace. Staff are still responsible to enter the approved waivers into the MLS Waiver User Agreement List Excel File to ensure we’re properly using the “Waiver” field in CARL.