Review Files Using the Label Queue

Here’s a way that you can use Millennium to select a group of items, searching any way you want including by barcode, and have the items end of in a review file. It’s a sneaky trick– you find each item and tell the system you are putting it in the queue for label printing. The system doesn’t really care if you plan to actually print labels– choosing this option causes it to tuck the items away in a “secret” review file that you can’t see in the list of files, but that you can copy later into any empty review file.

Just search Millennium in any way that you want, including scanning barcodes, choose individual item records, and click on Queue Monographic Label to Print under the Tools menu. You can do this over a period of days or weeks– the label queue won’t disappear between sessions or overnight.

To make this easier, consider setting up a function key with this macro, which puts the item in the label queue and closes the record:
%ALT+t%q%ALT+q%

When you are ready to work with your review file, go into Create Lists, find an empty file, choose Copy, and scroll way down in the list of files. At the end of the regular review files, you’ll see some special, system-generated files and the label queue files. Choose yours, which will be called Labels for batch printing for [your login]

Once you have a copy of the review file, you can rename it anything you want, and do anything you want with it. This is a great way to make review files for booklists and other projects when you want to select individual items rather than do a search.

Please note: the system will maintain one label queue review file for each login. You will need to coordinate this on your end to make sure several people aren’t tucking away items into the same review file.