Orders are placed in a matter of seconds. GOBI-loaded confirmation record, as it appears in the online staff module, and the library webcat. Conspicuously absent, at UVa. Library, are the traditional steps of pre-order searching and of keying orders into the local ILS system. Belinda Putnam, Monograph Receipt Technician, manages shelf-ready book plan distribution to libraries.
Books become available to users within two days of their arrival at UVa.
While some UVa. Library selectors search the local system before placing an order, many do not, bypassing that step in favor of GOBI's automatic duplication alerts and, locally, what UVa. These loads create order records and brief bibliographic records, so that OPAC users can view them, while updating encumbrances, and generating reports identifying potential duplicate orders. Software written by UVa. Library's Chris Hoebeke, one of a community of Sirsi programmers around the country, controls these local batch processes.