The body of three circulation notices was written into the program, and changing the greeting, the table or the closing required a change to the program. In Janium 2027 the institution writes that text: a loan about to fall due, a hold ready for pickup, and a hold that was not completed because the item was lent to someone else. The version is in Janium 2027 is now available.
What the library writes
On the due-date notice the library writes the text before the table and the text after it. The table can carry library, barcode, title, loan date, due date and number of renewals. Columns can be removed or others added.
The hold-ready notice says the item can be picked up and includes the deadline for coming to collect it. The other notice explains that the item was lent to someone else. On both hold notices the library adjusts the greeting and the message, and the logo is included when the image has a public address. Each notice has its own text. The header, the footer and the mail styles are shared by all three.
The text that ships with the system
If the library does not leave a text of its own, the one Janium ships is used. A datum the record does not have, for example the author, is left blank and the message is sent with that gap. If the text prepared for the notice is malformed, that notice is not sent and the failure is recorded.
Writing the notice does not turn sending on
A library that was not sending these notices still does not: the new text only replaces the body of the ones that already went out.
To continue the conversation
If you want to see how due-date and hold notices would read in your library’s words, write to us at info@janium.com.