Announcements
Welcome Billings Public School District!
Billings Public Schools are live in the system! With their first day of school rapidly approaching, Billings Public Schools librarians are busy learning how the MSC works and the benefits of membership.
With the addition of the Billings Public Schools 32 libraries, the MSC is over 200 libraries strong!
Enterprise Maintenance on Tuesday, August 15
SirsiDynix will be performing system maintenance that will affect Enterprise on Tuesday August 15 at 9:00 pm for approximately 2 hours.
Enterprise will remain available, but some My Account functions and hold placing functionality will be unavailable until the maintenance is completed. MSC Admins have posted a notice on Enterprise informing patrons about this maintenance
WorkFlows 4.0 Update on Tuesday, September 12
A WorkFlows update to version 4.0 is scheduled for Monday, September 11th starting at 10:00 pm. Some functions in Enterprise will be temporarily unavailable while Sirsi upgrades our server, and we will post an announcement banner to inform patrons. The morning of September 12th, staff will need to log into WorkFlows to update the staff client - depending on your local IT requirements you may need to be logged into the computer as an administrator to install the update.
We will have more details as we get closer to the upgrade date. If you have questions at this time, please open a help desk ticket
SMS Notifications - Request today!
We are happy to announce that SMS text notifications are ready for all MSC libraries to offer to your patrons! Libraries who were previously subscribed to the ShoutBomb service were migrated to the new service on July 1. There is no additional cost for this service.
We have two Knowledge Base articles to answer questions about how it works:
To request this new service or if you have questions, please open a help desk ticket.
Unfilled Holds BCA Report
Curious as to which patrons’ holds haven’t been filled yet? We have just the BCA reports for that!
Check out the Unfilled Holds report folder located in the Holds folder displayed under Shared Reports. These reports can help you fill patron holds before they expire at the 1-year mark as well as uncover some interesting item records issues.
Reminder: 'Trap Holds' & 'Receive Transit' wizard limited access
Back in the spring, we announced that we would be limiting access to both the ‘Trap Holds’ wizard and the ‘Receive Transit’ wizard due to the errors that can be caused by using these two wizards. This change took us a while, but it has now been implemented. Please use the ‘Check-in' wizard for placing all items into transit as well as receiving items from transit.
Did You Know?
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Did you know 954 new users were added to the MSC last week?
You can see how many patrons were added to your library by running the New User Count - Weekly report found in BCA following the path MTSC BCA > Shared Reports > Users
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Upcoming Events
MSC Office Hours on August 25th at 10 am & 2 pm
Location: Zoom. Meeting details can be found on the ASPeN Events calendar.
CMC Fall Meeting on September 14 at 1 pm
MSC Content Management Committee fall meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 14 from 1-4 pm. Meeting details can be found on the ASPeN events calendar.
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