How do I register internal traffic?

An internal traffic is very similar to a loan. The only difference is that when generating reminders, internal traffic records are skipped. Internal traffic is a loan without any date of return.

Internal traffic can be used in the following situations:

• Loan for a reader you don't want to send a reminder to (for instance the librarians or a teacher in a school)
• Temporary exclusion of a title from the circulation. For instance, in order to repair a damaged title or to exhibit it, you could loan the title to a fictive reader called "Repair" or "Library". By doing so, the title will be displayed as "not available" in the catalogue.

In the Loan management window, registering internal traffic happens as follows:

1. Check that the Entering status  is Internal traffic, otherwise select it in the Entry menu.
2. Identify the reader with his barcode or his name unless his account is already displayed.
3. Identify the title with its barcode or by doing a search.
   If the reader borrows several titles, repeat this step for each title.

Each title identified is added to the titles zone table. The table displays the date of the loan, the title and in the Operations performed column the mention Internal traffic.

Once you have finished with a reader, you can click on the Validate button or immediately identify the next reader without clicking on Validate : when switching reader, the operations performed with the current reader are automatically saved.