CIRCULATION ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 6. SETTING UP NOTICES
Short Message Service (SMS) Management
Short Messaging Service (SMS) support allows library patrons who have specified the Notification Preferences and/or Reserve Notification Preferences options in their User Record as SMS (see the User Administration User Guide for details) to be notified by text message when a reserved item is ready for pickup, an item currently on loan is due (or overdue), and if outstanding fines are registered against their accounts. The SMS Management function lets you maintain a list of SMS carriers. Text messages are defined using the Text Message Setup functions (see Text Message Setup for details).
Text messaging support is a purchasable enhancement, and may not be available for all systems. Contact Auto-Graphics’ Sales and Marketing for more information.
To view the SMS Carriers list:
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From the Circ Admin menu, select SMS Management.
- The SMS Carriers screen displays.
- The SMS Carriers screen lists the currently defined SMS carriers for your
library or consortium, and provides the following information for each carrier:
- Name – the name of the SMS carrier
- Email Gateway – the email address to which text messages are delivered for transmission
- Active – An indication of whether or not the carrier is currently active for your library or consortium; either True (the carrier is active) or False (the carrier is not active)
- From the SMS Carriers screen, you may:
- Add a new SMS carrier to the list (see Adding an SMS Carrier for details)
- Edit an existing SMS carrier in the list (see Editing an SMS Carrier for details)
- Delete an existing SMS carrier from the list (see Deleting SMS Carriers for details)