ILL ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 8. SHIPPING LABELS AND BOOKSTRAPS
Maintaining Shipping Labels
The Print Shipping Labels function lets you generate shipping labels for use in shipping loaned items to borrowing libraries, or in returning loaned items to lending libraries.
To view the shipping labels list:
-
Select
Print Shipping Labels from the ILL Admin menu (see
The ILL Admin
Menu for details).
- The Shipping Labels screen displays.
- By default, the Shipping Labels screen lists all active ILL requests with a
status of Shipped for which shipping labels may be printed. Each line in the
listing provides the following information:
- B or L Indicates the role of your library for the associated request; either B (borrower) or L (lender).
- To the name of the library to which the shipping label will be addressed; either the borrowing library (for requests you have received as a lender, or the lending library (for requests you have submitted as a borrower).
- Title the title of the item requested.
- Print Status the current print status for the shipping label; either Printed or Unprinted.
- If desired, you can reconfigure, sort and filter table content (see the System Basics User Guide for details).
- To limit the list by request status, select the desired option from the Include menu: Shipped Status Only, Returned Status Only or Both Shipped and Returned. The default is Shipped Status Only.
- To limit the list by print status, select the desired option from the View menu; Unprinted Labels Only, Printed Labels Only or Both Printed and Unprinted. The default value for the View menu is Unprinted Labels Only.
- Use the Print menu to select the type of labels you wish to print; either Consortium Labels or Avery 5160 Labels (intended for use with ILL requests associated with out-of-consortium participants).
- To limit the list by print status, select the desired option from the View menu; Unprinted Labels Only, Printed Labels Only or Both Printed and Unprinted. The default value for the View menu is Unprinted Labels Only.
- From the Shipping Labels screen, you may choose to:
- Print shipping labels for one or more ILL requests (see Printing Shipping Labels for details).
- Delete one or more ILL requests from the shipping labels list (see Deleting ILL Requests from the Shipping Labels List for details).