[iBorrow] Welcome to Sanibel! Now, go home!

[P Holly]

PLEASE REMOVE MY EMAIL FROM YOUR DATABASE.  I HAVE
REQUESTED THIS BEFORE, BUT I STILL GET EMAILS.  THANK
YOU --
--- Al Carlson <carlsoa at tblc.org> wrote:

> IBorrow users,
> 
> When you look at your iBorrow requests in Request
> Manager, you may see
> Sanibel crop up as a lender.  
> And they always decline.  How rude!  
> Well, there's a reason.  The Sanibel you see in
> iBorrow has nothing to
> do with the real Sanibel.  You know about
> virtual/dummy borrowers in
> iBorrow.  Think of Sanibel as a 'virtual library'. 
> Here's the whole
> story.
> SirsiDynix fixed several bugs in the last build, but
> they also broke
> something. They broke the ability of a 'lending'
> library to decline a
> request when the 'borrowing' library had no Lender
> Of Last Resort (LOLR)
> on file.  (Read that again to make sure you connect
> all the dots.)
> Many participants had no LOLR on file. Whenever one
> of them requested
> anything that the last lender in the ROTA could or
> would not fill,
> declining produced an error message, and the request
> just stayed there
> in Mediate Loan or Fill Loan.
> Ken Adams and I devised a workaround. We needed a
> dummy library. We
> needed a library that already existed in the iBorrow
> database, but that
> would not 'do' anything. Sanibel was one of those
> libraries. They are so
> far over the horizon for iBorrow that they don't
> even know we exist yet.
> (OK.  Slight exaggeration there.)
> So, for libraries with no LOLR, we plugged Sanibel
> into Agency Setup as
> the LOLR with an aging period of Zero days.
> Now, when iBorrow looks through all of the real
> participants and finds
> no available copies, it takes the request to
> Sanibel, waits five
> minutes, and then returns it to the original
> borrower. In your case,
> that would be you.
> And if it finds a possible lender and that lender is
> the last or only
> lender in the ROTA and that lender declines it,
> iBorrow takes the
> request to Sanibel, waits five minutes, and returns
> it to the original
> borrower.  That's still you.
> If it were not for the bug in the build, the
> requests would still come
> back to you. But if they went to a real library
> first and were declined,
> they would come back to you directly, not via
> Sanibel.
> So, when the bug in the build is fixed (and the
> flagon with the dragon
> has the brew which is true), Sanibel will go away,
> and your declined
> requests will come back to you directly, rather than
> taking the scenic
> route.
> Get it?  (Got it!)  Good! 
> 
> (You can find earlier versions of this
> information-and other useful
> iBorrow stuff--on Beth's Blog at
> http://tblc.org/bethsblog)
> 
> (The title of this email was taken from signs I used
> to see just over
> the border when I drove from California to Oregon. 
> They were set up by
> S.N.O.B (The Society of Native Oregon Born) and
> said, "Welcome to
> Oregon!  Now, go home!"  I always assumed they were
> meant in a humorous
> fashion....)
> 
> Al Carlson
> System Administrator
> Tampa Bay Library Consortium
> 1202 Tech Blvd. Suite 202
> Tampa, FL  33619
> 813-622-8252 ext. 223
> 
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