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Member
Library Responsibilities
- Place Mid-Hudson shipping
bins and other clearly labeled items for pick-up such as audio-visual
equipment and rotating collections in the same place every day. If we
bring three bins on Monday, there should be three bins sitting there
on Tuesday.
 Note
as of July 1, 2006 the Non-Bin Form
must be attached to any materials going through the MHLS delivery
system that are separate from the regular shipping bins. Materials
will not be picked up unless this form is attached.
- Provide a clear and unobstructed
path to the bins inside and outside your library.
- Do not send fragile items,
boxes of book donations, furniture, or materials that are rare or irreplaceable.
- CDs and DVDs should be packaged
in padded envelopes with clearly labeled destination names.
- Clearly label the Mid-Hudson
routing slips with the "to" line filled out with the library
name and place facing the front of the item. When re-using the routing
slips, cross out the old "to".
Note as of January 2008, the
delivery location must be printed in a large format at the top of the
delivery slip and secured in the item. Do not use the location's 3-letter
code.
Here are some examples of mislabeled
routing slips that come through delivery daily
- Materials
going to a correctional facility should have their routing slip addressed
to "MHLS ILL Dept".
- Items of the same size can
be banded together but do not band together items going to different
destinations. Uneven sized banded items will be taken apart so we can
utilize all space in a shipping box.
- Notify Mid-Hudson ahead
of time of any lock or alarm changes.
- Place items in shipping
bins in an organized manner. The neater the boxes are, the less that
have to be used.
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