Local Innovative Library Overrides of MeLCat Requests
Local Innovative library staff should not override a MeLCat request in order to check out the item to a local patron. Instead, Innovative library staff should cancel the MeLCat request before checking out the item to their local patron.
When a staff member at a local Innovative library overrides a MeLCat request, the request is not automatically cancelled or re-requested. The request stays on the item as a local hold until the item is returned from circulation. Then, at check-in, a message displays about the MeLCat request. The patron who made the MeLCat request has had to wait during the local circulation period.
If a staff member accidentally does an override, the MeLCat request can still be cancelled or transferred to another available copy.
Recommended by the MeL Resource Sharing Policies Committee, June 2005.
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