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Pickup at your school from public library

by Rebecca Rosecrans 1 month ago

Recently I was placing a hold on an item at my public library. When I chose location I noticed that several of our wayne county school libraries are listed. (Green, Triway and Wooster City) Does anyone know how that works? 

school library list to place holds

Charles Schmiesing 1 month ago

Rebecca,

  1. I'm guessing that Wayne County Public Library just has an agreement with the various schools as a drop-off location. In the system being used (CLEVNET / SirsiDynix Symphony), they likely configured each of the pickup locations (schools) as a "library" in the system, and then have a method to simply transport the items to the schools for the students or staff.
  2. As an FYI, in Ohio we use to have some schools participate in a statewide resource sharing project called MORE, which is now the Statewide Delivery Service. I don't believe any schools participate at this point because the delivery fee was cost prohibitive, but it is a service that allows patrons to borrow materials from any other participating library. 

Charles