WorldShare Management Services: Circulation

PLAN AHEAD

WorldShare Circulation must be working in order to load the Offline Client. The time to load it is BEFORE you have an outage.

The Offline Circulation Client is an application that allows you to record checkins and checkouts of items if the WorldShare Circulation system is not available. It will record the user barcode and the item barcode. You can then upload these transactions to the system when is becomes available. The  Offline Circulation Client does not follow circulation polices or link to patron records to detect blockages, item limits, etc. It only creates a record of a user's checkouts and items checked in.

WMS Circulation has a check-in mode called “Non loan return.” WMS identifies these transactions as “Items Soft Checked Out” in Reports or "item soft issued" in the Circ Item Inventories available via OCLC sFTP.

When BCLA libraries migrated from Sierra, “INTL USE” (item fixed field 93) migrated to WMS as “soft check in.”

Non loan returns in WMS allow you to check in items that were used but not checked out. Such returns can be applied to items from the reference collection, items that are on reserve, or items found in a reading room.

A soft check in indicates that the item was not checked out to a patron and did not leave the library. Soft Check in transactions use the Non Loan Return Check In mode in WMS Circulation:

Flow between WMS Circ and Reporting for Non Loan Returns.

WMS documentation for Inventory and Soft Check In.

Due to the multiple types and brands of printers and the multiple variations of labels being used throughout the OCLC universe, OCLC Support can offer only general assistance with their label printing program. The OCLC  Community Center is a great place to post questions. Other libraries with similar printing set ups may be able to provide some advice.