Millennium Circulation – Phase 2 Offline Circulation
Millennium Offline Circulation
In the section you will learn how to:
1. Set Millennium Offline Circulation Preferences
2. Check out items
3. Renew items
4. Upload transactions
Millennium Offline Circulation is used when your library has no Internet connection or the III server is unavailable. Normally, circulation transactions occur directly on the III server. When you use the Offline Circulation mode, the transactions reside on your local PC. When you have access the III server again, you can transfer all of the transactions from your local PC to the server.
You should only use Millennium Offline Circulation to check out and renew items.
To open choose the Millennium Offline Circulation icon on your desktop.
Setting Preferences
1. Choose View from the Menu bar and Preferences…
2. Type in Statistics Group number for your library (see Appendix for your number)
3. Choose Apply
4. Choose Quit
Checking Out Items
1. Choose Check-Out mode by selecting the Check-out icon from the Navigation bar or select the mode from the Go menu or press F1
2. Scan in a patron barcode
3. Enter due date using the format: mm-dd-yyyy
4. Choose N for no when prompted if it is an hourly loan.
5. Scan in item barcodes.
6. If you want to check out items to another patron, choose Clear Patron and scan in the next patron’s barcode.
***Remember to separate items that you wish to circulate for 21 days from those items that you wish to circulate for 7 days, and check each out separately.
Renewing Items:
1. Choose Renew mode by selecting the Renew icon from the Navigation bar or select the mode from the Go menu or Press F3
2. Scan in a patron barcode
3. Enter the due date for the items you wish to renew, using the format: mm-dd-yyyy.
4. Choose N for no when prompted if it is an hourly loan.
5. Scan in item barcodes.
6. If you want to renew items for another patron, choose Clear Patron and scan in the next patron’s barcode.
Uploading Transactions:
1. From the File menu, choose Upload circulation and patron data.
2. Choose Yes if you are able to login to Millennium Circulation.
· Millennium Circulation connects to the server and uploads the PC’s patron.dat and circ.dat files.
3. You will then get a confirmation message letting you know that all of the transactions were successfully uploaded to the server. Click on OK.
4. You must next answer Yes to the question of whether or not to erase the circulation transaction files. If you do not erase these old files from your PC, they will be uploaded again & processed the next time you use Millennium Offline Circulation.
5. A last confirmation message will display to let you know that all of the old transactions have been cleared successfully from your PC.
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