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Overdue notices can be delivered via email, paper or phone.
The server sends overdue emails to patrons once a day, after hours, when the fines generator runs. The emails are generated when an item is 7 days, and then 14 days overdue (this is a global Sitka setting).
These emails are not spam, and should not be marked as spam by either patrons or staff.
The overdue email notice templates can be customized at the federation or library level. Please contact Co-op Support for customization.
Evergreen generates a PDF file of overdue notices and emails the file to you to be printed and distributed to patrons. These notices are created and sent daily.
An empty PDF file means that there is no notice for the day due to no item filling in the overdue category. You will still receive the empty file. If you are not receiving daily PDF files please contact Co-op Support.
To set up paper overdues you need to provide Co-op Support with the following information:
The intervals at which you would like patrons to receive notices.
The standard intervals to choose from are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 weeks after the item becomes due. The intervals define when a second, third, or fourth, and so on, letter is sent out.
The 1 and 2 weeks overdue notices are sent to patrons without email address only. From the 3 weeks overdue notice onwards it is sent to all patrons.
The wording you would like to be used on each notice.
This wording of the paper notices is customizable by library. PDF notices are set up by Co-op Support, and cannot be modified in the staff client. Please submit required revisions to Co-op Support.
A final notice which includes billing information can be set to coincide with the system automatically marking long overdue items to lost. See the section called “Final Notices” for information on setting up this notice
You can set up a recurring report to generate a list of overdues for all patrons, or for those without an email address only. Then you can phone each person individually. You can specify an email address to receive an email reminder each time a list is generated. There are shared templates for overdue reports in the SITKA_templates → Circulation folder. See Chapter 28, Shared Sitka Templates for more about using shared templates. Co-op Support staff will be very happy to assist if you need help in this process.
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