Reserves Documentation

Placing an item on reserve

Placing an item on reserve in Unicorn Workflows, also known as Sirsi, requires linking an item record, a course record, and an instructor record. The resulting reserve control record links these three records together in the catalog to make them easily searchable by patrons.

Follow the links below to place an item on reserve.

1. Creating a course record

2. Creating an instructor record This page has been fixed and the revised version will be up soon.

3. Creating an item record

4. Creating a reserve control record

Removing an item from reserve

At the end of each semester each library runs a report in Sirsi to take items no longer needed off reserve. Item records that need to be deleted or shadowed are then scanned using a handheld scanner and sent to LITS for processing. Another report can then be run to generate a shelf list of items that need to be returned to the shelves.