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We're discontinuing Amlib on 31 December 2023.
Product development, OCLC support, and OCLC support documentation updates will end on 31 December 2023. The support documentation will remain on help.oclc.org until 31 December 2024, so we encourage you to export any useful pages before then.
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- Offline module
- Find information about using the Offline module in Amlib.
- OpenOPAC
- Find information about using the OpenOPAC in Amlib.
- OpenReports
- Find user guides for OpenReports in Amlib.
- Reports
- Find information about Amlib reports.
- Stockitem
- Find information about Stockitem in Amlib.
- Autolink process
- Bulk loan boxes from file
- Call sets
- Cat definitions
- Delete borrower or stockitem history
- Depreciation
- Edition display details
- Field names displayed for stockitem forms
- Floating collections
- Import items from a tab delimited file
- Item alert when there is no process
- Keyword search in stockitem
- Loan parameters
- Mass change catalogue reference number
- Mass change form codes
- Mass change item barcodes
- Mass change missing items
- Mass change refresh from catalogue
- Mass change stats code
- Mass delete stockitems
- Mass item change
- Mass memo and mass memo delete
- Master/Subsidiary items: kit loans
- New stockitem record
- Overnight loans
- Process code
- Reserve allocate
- Reserve shuffle
- Save an item query into a file
- Stockitem loan types
- Stocktake: Report missing items
- StockWandChange
- Value of the collection
- Volume display details
- Wand into file
- Supervisor
- Find information for supervisor functions in Amlib.
- Add GST to MARC import
- Allow users to modify authorities in the catalogue screen
- Barcode check digits
- Calendar dates
- Configure Amlib help as a webpage
- Copy parameters using advanced copy
- Disaster recovery planning
- Fuzzy match
- Mass memo and mass memo delete
- NetOPACs unsuccessful search terms
- New location
- Order of columns in reservation table
- Order of columns in Stockitem table
- Permissions for issues and returns only
- Permissions for Orders module
- Permissions for Stockitem mass change
- Remove the SBARCODE memo
- Sounds in Amlib
- Statistics parameters
- Tasks for start of the year 2019
- Tasks for start or end of year
- Usernames
- VDX ILL Email
- Amlib VDX ILL Email allows for the receipt of a structured email sent from OCLC’s VDX Inter-Library Loans System.
- Technical documents
- Find installation and configuration instructions for Amlib Client, back manager, SQL Server, ZOPACs and ZServer.
- Manuals and Training Guides
- Find PDF manuals and training for features in Amlib.
- Amlib release notes and known issues
- Find Amlib release notes and known issues. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
- Amlib training
- Find training for Amlib.
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Can you tell me how we might be able to retrieve or reset our login details for Amlib SIP2?
- Featured Amlib Troubleshooting articles
- How can I reregister borrowers if they expire?
- How do I add a new class into Amlib for the new school year?
- How do I get a count of all my resources?
- How do I send a list of barcodes to the State Library of Western Australia to determine their holdings at our library?
- How do I send a list of barcodes to the State Library of Western Australia without including ILLs (Inter Library Loans) to determine their holdings at our library?
- How do I turn off the happy birthday song?
- How to access Amlib on a new staff computer?
- If you are having problems in Amlib email reports, find those borrowers with no email address but with the use email activated
- Is there a way to be sure the Amlib backups are reliable?
- I have accidentally ordered item barcodes with a different configuration of letters and numbers. Can I get Amlib to recognise these barcodes?
- I have imported a large marc file but only 9999 were imported
- I have some special items for a student that I want to hide in the OPAC so that other students cannot request or reserve them
- I want all my items currently on loan to have a due date extended to a date in the future
- I want my report order to be by class and then given name in my overdue class list
- I want to create a list of items never loaned but not including newer items
- I want to reregister borrowers en masse without checking the details of each one
- I want to search items received since a certain date
- I want to set up to disallow items to be renewed if they are overdue via SIP2 Manager for my diy loan kiosks
- I wish to edit an Amlib report template
- I wish to get an excel list of all the items on loan
- I wish to know the balances owing as a summary by financial type
- I wish to know the number of borrowers we had at a time in the past
- I wish to stocktake just my fiction
- I wish to use a Stockitem report with an existing file created from my Stocktake. How can I select this file within the report?
- My VDX emails have stopped being generated and Amlib Stockitems are not being created
- My Z39.50 search no longer works
- Our grace period for fines do not seem accurate. Is there something we should check?
- The icons from my Amlib toolbar have disappeared
- We are getting SQL errors that refer to communication link failures in the log
- What do the set flags process in preparation for a stocktake?
- What is the most up to date version of Windows server that Netopacs can successfully run on?
- When I attempt a mass borrower change the menu is greyed out
- When I download my MARC records into Amlib, the call numbers on my Stockitems are not showing correctly
- When I do a Keyword Search in Stockitem my local stock records do not display
- When I import my new records in borrower import I do not have a matching borrower class code to match what is coming from the administration file
- When I loan an item out I get a warning about a date restriction and I can only loan items for one day
- When I login to Amlib I receive an SQL Server error 20016 which refers to the SQL Server does not exist or access denied
- When I run my Borrower History report the names are repeated
- When I search in Amlib Modules I get only a set number of records before I have to continue the search from the Table Menu using F11. How can I set this default number to be larger?
- When I try to mass delete items, my menu option to mass delete is greyed out
- When running statistics reports it is possible to enter a Transtype as a number. How do I know what those numbers refer to?
- When uploading catalogues within OpenOPAC I get a lock obtain timed out message and it will not continue the upload
- Why are some of the borrowers on the system greyed out while others are darker font?
- Login
- Find information about Icon setup and directory mapping in Amlib.
- Finance and orders
- Find information about finance and orders in Amlib.
- Add new accounts to budget
- Archive orders and invoices
- Budget adjustments
- Budget rollover: new accounts for commitments
- Change from single line accounting to double line accounting
- Check commitments
- Circulation financial types
- Create a new standing order
- Set tax for budgeting: inclusive or exclusive
- Use percent to update budget
- Circulation
- Find information about using Circulation in Amlib.
- Cancel all reservations
- Claimed returned suggested procedure
- ELR Survey installation guide
- In house statistics
- Issue from stockitem file
- Mass change due dates
- Override permissions within issues for operator
- PLR survey installation guide
- Reservations guide
- Reserve allocate
- Reserve shuffle
- ResGet procedure
- Return multi-part items
- Set loan parameters
- Set overnight loans
- Start of year circulation dates
- Transfer of items
- Catalogue
- Find information about managing catalogues in Amlib.
- Add a series when using a split authority
- Catalogue and import web links including SCIS
- Catalogue maintenance
- Catalogue URLs
- CatZSearch and CatZServers
- CatZSearch for SLWA
- Change a call number in a catalogue
- Change brief catalogue display tags
- Create a catalogue
- Create a catalogue saved file
- Delete unused catalogues
- Display cover images including SCIS
- Federated searching
- Find catalogue records without ISBNs
- Insert all unused catalogues into a saved file
- Modify catalogue details
- RDA implementation
- Rebuild the MARC display
- SCIS Z39.50 setup, download, and import
- Borrower
- Find information for Borrower management in Amlib.
- Add a global pin
- Borrower import
- Borrower online changes
- Borrower picture import
- Borrower subject interests
- Check and create payment links
- Link borrower addresses
- Manually enter new borrowers
- Mass borrower change
- Mass borrower deletion
- Mass borrower memo deletion
- Mass change borrower barcodes
- Mass memo borrowers
- Merge borrowers
- QAS Batch Process
- QAS individual process
- QAS individual process for existing borrowers
- QAS Setup
- Resource bookings
- Search borrower financials
- Authorities
- Find information about using Authorities in Amlib.
- 880 MARC tag setup for non-roman characters
- Add a series when using Split Authority
- Add or remove an authority to a catalogue file
- Add subfield text to a tag or delete subfield from tag
- Alter a series to be a split authority
- Authority replace
- Catalogue and import web links including SCIS
- Change 440 tag to be a 490 tag
- Change the MARC tag of an authority- single and from file
- Check URL links
- Clickview integration with Amlib
- Create a new authority enquiry option
- Create a new notes tag in authority
- Delete authority subfields
- Diacritic characters
- Export item records with availability
- Export item records with date accessioned/received
- Format authority punctuation
- Include price and volume fields with MARC import
- Load MARC records with 001 Tags- WA Public Libraries
- Load SCIS authority data
- MarcTag maintenance
- MARC or XML export from Amlib
- MARC take up
- MARC take up of SLWA eBook Records
- Mass delete unused authorities
- Merge duplicate shared authorities
- Premiers reading challenge listmaker
- Processing e-content
- RDA Implementation
- Rebuild an authority key
- Rebuild the keywords for an authority
- Search all series tags 490, 440, and 830
- See and See Also references
- Set up the 008 tag
- Downloads and software updates
- Find downloads, updates, and patches for Amlib.
- Get started
- Find information about Amlib support contacts, supported operating systems, and other software solutions and partnerships.