ILL ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 6. THE PARTICIPANT RECORD
Entering Shipping Policies
Shipping policies define the authorized shipping methods for materials provided through interlibrary loan.
To enter shipping policies:
-
Click
the Shipping button at the top of the Maintain Participant Record
screen (see
Maintaining Participant Records for details).
- The Maintain Shipping Policy screen displays in an additional browser window.
Maintain Shipping Policy Screen
- The Library Name, Library Code and ILL Phone Number for the current library are displayed at the top of the screen.
- The Maintain Shipping Policy screen provides a listing of Shipping Methods, and lets you specify the approved shipping methods (and associated Materials for each shipping method).
- Indicate the authorized shipping methods for your library by selecting the
appropriate response from the (Y, N) menu for each shipping method.
- Select Y (for Yes) if use of the associated shipping method is authorized.
- Select N (for No) if use of the associated shipping method is not authorized.
- The default selection for the (Y, N) menu is N.
- Indicate the material types that may be shipped by each authorized
shipping method in the associated Materials text box.
- If all material types may be shipped by a given shipping method, enter Any in the Materials text box, or leave the text box blank.
- Materials text cannot exceed 50 characters, including spaces.
- When shipping policies have been entered for all listed shipping methods,
click the Submit button to submit your changes to the shipping policies.
- The message “Successfully updated Shipping Policy record!” displays.
- Click the Close button to close the Maintain Shipping Policy browser window.