Another First!
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katekintailbcAnother first for me: yesterday at the library I came across my own hold on the picklist! It actually wasn't as simple as that, though.
Just a quick definition to start off: the picklist is a list of books people have put on hold that need to be picked off the shelves and then processed (either sent to the patron at another branch or put on the hold shelves at our branch).
I started off processing the picklist yesterday morning like usual in the New section. Only two on the list were on the shelves, which is low but not unheard of for the New section, as those books get checked out quite frequently. I headed to some of the small sections to try those out. One of the first on the list are graphic novels. And, when I was in the YA graphic novel section, I found Brian Michael Bendis's Spider-Men on the shelves. It wasn't on my list, which I thought was interesting because I had just put it on hold the day before online. I thought it was strange, but I justified it by thinking that maybe the system was trying to get a copy from some other library or just hadn't gotten around to my hold yet. So I grabbed the book (along with two other graphic novels that looked good to me) and figured I'd just check it out and then cancel my hold in the system because I got to a copy before the picklist/hold system could catch up with me.
In all my years of volunteering at the library with the picklist (7 years now?) three or four times I've been given the wrong list to process. It'll say picklist and the correct date at the top, but the books on them are wrong. I don't know how it happens, but I can only tell it's happening when very few on the list can be found in the library on the shelves. So I was a little suspicious when there were so few new books, but when there were pretty much no books on the graphic novel, romance, series, and then JFIC shelves. So I checked with the librarians and, indeed, it was the wrong list. They printed the correct list out for me and--voila! Tons of books on the shelves.
When I got through the new books section and then moved on to graphic novels, I was thrilled to see Spider-Men on the picklist. That should have keyed me in before that it was the wrong list. And it was pretty neat that I'd already grabbed it for myself off the shelf. I'd wasted half an hour of my shift on the wrong list, which was sad.
But it was neat when it was time to process the books and I scanned in the Spider-Men book and my own hold slip was printed out. I've put tons of books on hold at the library over the years, many times on Fridays. But this was the first time I'd ever had my own book on the picklist. Moreover, the first time I'd ever picked up a book that was on the picklist without knowing it was actually on the picklist.
Just a quick definition to start off: the picklist is a list of books people have put on hold that need to be picked off the shelves and then processed (either sent to the patron at another branch or put on the hold shelves at our branch).
I started off processing the picklist yesterday morning like usual in the New section. Only two on the list were on the shelves, which is low but not unheard of for the New section, as those books get checked out quite frequently. I headed to some of the small sections to try those out. One of the first on the list are graphic novels. And, when I was in the YA graphic novel section, I found Brian Michael Bendis's Spider-Men on the shelves. It wasn't on my list, which I thought was interesting because I had just put it on hold the day before online. I thought it was strange, but I justified it by thinking that maybe the system was trying to get a copy from some other library or just hadn't gotten around to my hold yet. So I grabbed the book (along with two other graphic novels that looked good to me) and figured I'd just check it out and then cancel my hold in the system because I got to a copy before the picklist/hold system could catch up with me.
In all my years of volunteering at the library with the picklist (7 years now?) three or four times I've been given the wrong list to process. It'll say picklist and the correct date at the top, but the books on them are wrong. I don't know how it happens, but I can only tell it's happening when very few on the list can be found in the library on the shelves. So I was a little suspicious when there were so few new books, but when there were pretty much no books on the graphic novel, romance, series, and then JFIC shelves. So I checked with the librarians and, indeed, it was the wrong list. They printed the correct list out for me and--voila! Tons of books on the shelves.
When I got through the new books section and then moved on to graphic novels, I was thrilled to see Spider-Men on the picklist. That should have keyed me in before that it was the wrong list. And it was pretty neat that I'd already grabbed it for myself off the shelf. I'd wasted half an hour of my shift on the wrong list, which was sad.
But it was neat when it was time to process the books and I scanned in the Spider-Men book and my own hold slip was printed out. I've put tons of books on hold at the library over the years, many times on Fridays. But this was the first time I'd ever had my own book on the picklist. Moreover, the first time I'd ever picked up a book that was on the picklist without knowing it was actually on the picklist.
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