I am pleased to announce that Nahant Public Library will be joining NOBLE next week!
MOBIUS, our Evergreen hosting provider, will begin loading the library’s data into our Evergreen database on Sunday, June 14. Once the bibs and items are added to the Evergreen system, they will automatically appear in Aspen as well. The official go-live date is planned for Thursday, June 18.
We expect that several Nahant patron records imported into Evergreen will be for patrons who already have a NOBLE card from another library. Those patron records will eventually be merged, at which time the Nahant barcode will be designated as the primary barcode and the other library’s barcode will be set to inactive. If a Nahant patron tries use the inactive library card, one or both of the following behaviors will occur:
- The following alert will appear when retrieving the patron using the inactive barcode:
- Circ staff will receive a “no” symbol when trying to scan any items for checkout.
If you see this behavior when checking out items to a patron from Nahant, the fix is to use their Nahant card to check out their items or, if they do not have the card in their possession, to look up the patron by other means provided you have confirmed their identity according to the guidelines described in the Using Cards section of the NOBLE Borrower’s Card policy.
Feel free to send an email to support@noblenet.org with any questions. Please join us in welcoming Nahant to the network!