Accessing In-House Use Information for an Item

You can keep track of item use statistics for non-circulating items (such as reference materials) or other items that are used within your library but not checked out.

When you check in an item using the in-house mode, Circulation displays the item’s total number of in-house uses and the date of the item’s last in-house use. Additionally, you can print this information by creating an in-house use report. (For instructions, see Generating an In-House Use Statistics Report.)

If you use a circulation tool such as Horizon Offline Circulation or 3M Automated Circulation System to check in items, the in-house mode is not available. Horizon cannot compute in-house use statistics if you do not use Horizon Circulation.

To access in-house use information for an item

1 Check in an item using in-house mode. (For instructions, see Setting Up a Checkin Mode and Checking In an Item Normally.)

Horizon records that the item has been used and displays the item’s status as if you had checked in an item that had been checked out.

2 Choose the item whose in-house statistics you want to view.

Horizon displays the Edit Checkin/Request Processing window.

3 Click Page Down or resize the window until you find the in-house use statistics:

4 Click Close to exit the Edit Checkin window.
5 Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each item whose in-house use statistics you want to view.

Important: Items continue to check in in the In-House mode until you change to another mode or until you close Circulation.

 


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