When a Visiting Researcher or Library Guest with a HOLLIS account requests an in-library use item with policy 01 or 02, the only pick-up location is the owning library's Reading Room. When materials arrive at a library's Circulation Desk, Alma will show the item must go to the Reading Room. The Alma operator must set, or temporarily change, the current location in Alma to that library's Reading Room to notify the patron the item is on hold and ready at the Reading Room. Items for Visiting Researchers or Library Guests start with a 10-day hold once the patron is notified of its arrival on the Reading Room hold shelf. Once the patron "checks out" the item for the first time (see below for more information on loaning and returning at the Reading Room desk), the hold is removed and the 28 reading room "loan" period begins. Each subsequent time the patron wishes to use the item, staff remove the item from the shelf and "check it out" at the Reading Room desk Alma location. When the patron is done with the material, the item is "returned" at the Reading Room desk until the end of the 28-day "loan" period or until the patron no longer needs the item.
Note: Local Library policy would dictate whether to cancel requests for certain in-library use materials, or to manually shorten or lengthen the time on hold/Reading Room loan period.
