COVID-19 and item quarantine
Learn how to quarantine returned items for a period of time prior to returning them to the circulating collection.
As the global community continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19, many libraries are planning how to safely handle collections as they begin to reopen. You may want to quarantine returned items for a period of time prior to returning them to your circulating collection. WorldCat Discovery and WorldShare provide several ways to quarantine items.
With WorldCat Discovery and WorldShare, you can:
- Create a quarantine patron to which you will check out returned items rather than checking them in WorldShare, or
- Create a temporary quarantine shelving location that will be visible to patrons in WorldCat Discovery, or
- Create a quarantine patron and temporary shelving location using WorldShare and WorldCat Discovery, or
- Extend the reshelving period for quarantined items using WorldShare and OCLC Service Configuration, or
- Use a scheduling policy to quarantine items using WorldShare and OCLC Service Configuration.
Note: OCLC recommends documenting your current policies prior to making any changes. This will make it easier to revert changes when it is time to remove the quarantine configuration.
- Create a quarantine patron
- Discover how to create a quarantine patron to check out returned items for the duration of the quarantine period in WorldShare.
- Create a quarantine patron and temporary quarantine shelving location
- Discover how to create a quarantine patron and a temporary shelving location for quarantined items, generate a list of barcodes of all items currently checked out to patrons, and bulk update currently checked out items to the temporary quarantine shelving location.
- Create a temporary quarantine shelving location
- Discover how to create a temporary shelving location for quarantined items in WorldCat Discovery.
- Extend the reshelving period for quarantined items
- Discover how to extend the reshelving period for quarantined items in WorldShare.
- Use a scheduling policy to quarantine items
- Discover how to use a scheduling policy to quarantine items in WorldShare.