Facilitate your front-desk operations with the powerful yet easy-to-use Circulation. M5 displays patron, item, and transaction information in a split screen visible during loan, return, renewal, reserve, booking, or status functions. To optimize your workflow, you can customize the data that displays for patrons and items. You can also display patron photos and item images such as book jackets.

 

Circulation’s one-click functionality means shorter lines and fewer personnel at the front desk. Enable Self-Check or Self-Return and expand your patron offerings without impact on library staff.

 

Other useful features include fast multiple-item batch returns, hourly loan capability, special reserve collection management, backdating check-in and override capabilities, calendar for scheduling fixed and repeated closed days, and the ability to set patron and staff circulation rights and authorization levels.

 

 

Circulation provides transaction reports to monitor library status and activity. Reports include loans, fines, holds, reserves, bookings, overdue loans, or all transactions. You can generate a transaction report for the current day, a specified number of days, or all transactions. In addition, bookings can be displayed for the future. Additional reports can be generated using the M5 report generator.