Rush - In Process Requests

Changes are being made to these procedures. This page is under construction.

Check the citation on Acorn.

When the book is in the cataloging process or on order, you will see a message in the location field that says one of the following:

On Order

Baker Hold

In-Process

Ask-Staff

At-Bindery

These locations correspond to particular library units and people. See the chart for a breakdown:

On Order or Baker-Hold (item is on order or on shelves at Baker)	SEND MESSAGE TO	RushAcq
Ask-Staff (RS-Inventory Card #xxx)		ANNEX
In-Process (item is in the Divinity cataloging dept.)		Eileen Crawford
AT-Bindery (item is in-house or at commercial bindery)		Rushmark

Copy the Acorn record into a Pegasus e-mail or mail the record to yourself to forward it on.

Route the Pegasus message to the appropriate person as determined by the information below, making sure to:

use Rush Request in the subject field
Include the patron name and social as below --

          "Please rush to divinity for "Lastname, Firstname (SSN)"

              Delete from the message all unnecessary information
              Always include the barcode number of the item, if it has one

                                  Sign thanks and sign it

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