Reserve an item

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To reserve an item for a borrower::

Scan or search for the borrower.
Once you've selected the borrower, do one of the following.

Select "Bibliographic" as the Quick Search option. This is a keyword search for titles, so enter some keywords for the title you want.

Select Enquiry from the Module Menu. Search for the title you want, e.g. you might select Search Holdings, Advanced Search and then enter keywords in the Subject field.
Press F7 to pop up a search window, and search for the title you want.

Do one of the following.

From the Brief Display, select the checkbox next to the title you want, and then click Reserve Selections.
From the Full Display of the title, click Place Reservations.

Since you've already selected the borrower, you can click Submit. If you wanted to you could select another borrower at this point.
Enter details of the reservation.

Pickup location. This will default to the borrower's home location if they have never placed a reservation before and if the selected location is flagged as a pickup location. If the borrower has previously placed a reservation then it will default to the pickup location they last selected.

Items to reserve. This lets you select a specific item or an item from a specific location. If you do select a specific item then Number of copies required is set to 1 and can't be changed.

Not required until. This lets you suspend the reservation. For example, say Not required until is set to 31/10/2016. If an item is returned before this date then it will not be allocated. If an item is returned on or after this date then it will be allocated.

Not required after ... or date. This lets you specify a date when an unallocated reservation will expire.

Notes. Here you can add some notes about the reservation.

Click Place Reservation.