Monday, March 2, 2015

Category 4!

Hello –
There was a recent question regarding Category 4 (Overdrive) being a necessary field at the time of registration

How this started:
When we first switched to HEB cards we asked overdrive for list of existing users and asked Sirsi for that list of customers to have a value in category 4 that stated overdrive.  We tested a process at central by asking staff to indicate whether a customer used overdrive. (staff was to ask when replacing Power cards with MyLink cards)  In theory this would flag the account for overdrive update with the new account number. This update did not play out as intended and was discontinued.
The current practice:
·         User category 4 provides and interesting usage stat for overdrive but does NOT create an overdrive account nor does it update and existing user’s account with the new number.
·         An overdrive account is created when a customer logs in to overdrive.
·         To update the customer’s overdrive account with new information please contact Email reference via email or the ask for on the HPL website and include the following: Subject: Overdrive Account Update, Customer Name, Old Card Number, New Card Number

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns

Sarah Ortiz
Library Assistant Supervisor
Circulation Administration
Houston Public Library
500 McKinney| Houston, Texas  77002
832-393-1491

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