Viewing my info, Placing holds or reserves – Follett VERSION 6.00 User Manual

Page 473

Advertising
background image

04/04

Chapter 35 Using your OPAC

473

S

Patrons with printed barcodes can use a scanner to enter the information.

S

Neither field is case-sensitive; the patron can enter upper- or lower-case

letters, regardless of the case used in Patron Maintenance.

S

If you chose Birth Date as the password, the patron must use the

MMDDYYYY format. For example, for May 13, 1990, the patron must enter

05131990

. The patron should not enter any slashes, dashes, or spaces.

S

The patron must enter the entire contents of the field. For example, if you

chose Last Name as the password, then John Adams, Jr., whose patron record

has Adams, Jr." in the Last Name field, must enter

adams, jr.

Ċnot

adams

.

S

For privacy, the password entry is masked by asterisks.

Viewing My Info

If the patron selects My Info, the Patron Information dialog appears after a

successful login:

Patrons have access to three of the

seven tabs in the Patron Information

dialog: Checkouts, Fines, and Holds.

They cannot edit any of the information;

it is read-only.

In addition, the Help button is

not available.

The dialog is the same one displayed in Circulation Desk and Patron

Maintenance. In the OPAC, however, only three of the seven tabs appear:

Checkouts, Fines, and Holds.
On the Fines tab, any fine notes you created do not appear. If you chose to

automatically calculate fines (in System Setup | Setup | Circulation | Fines) and

the patron has any pending fines, the Fines tab includes a note containing the

current pending fine amount for overdue items not yet returned.
If you allowed (on the OPAC General Setup tab) patrons to print, they can print

the information on the three tabs.

Placing holds or reserves

A patron can place a hold or reserve from three different windows in OPAC: the

selection list, the record display window, and the Bookbag (if enabled). The

Advertising