Pickup Location change
We have two flavors of ILL in the TBLC iBorrow universe. Hillsborough County and Lee County have centralized ILL shops that do all their ILL work, whether it is iBorrow management or old style ILL. In SunLine and in the Polk County Library Cooperative, ILL is done at the individual library. Whichever form you use seems “right” and “natural” to you. The other is, of course, weird and strange.Until the latest build, iBorrow acted as though every library was the SunLine/PCLC flavor. ILL staff at Lee and Hillsborough had to jump through unnatural hoops to get their work done. The latest build let us “centralize” ILL activities at Lee and Hillsborough in URSA’s eyes. URSA now has very little awareness of the branches in those two counties. From its point of view, all meaningful ILL activity in Lee County and Hillsborough County now takes place at the designated ILL location.
Here’s why you care about that, if you work in SunLine or PCLC. When you fill an iBorrow request for Hillsborough or Lee, you won’t see the specific pickup location any more. Just Lee County or Tampa Hillsborough. That’s OK. That’s the way it should be. Just send the item to them, and they will take care of getting it to the proper branch.
Another change associated with the new build is that PCLC locations are now treated more as individuals (like SunLine) and less like branches of a HQ library. That is also the way it should be. URSA/iBorrow is gradually ‘evolving’ to fit us better. I can hardly wait for it to develop an opposable thumb.
Al Carlson