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Library users waiting for their book or movie to arrive at their local library branch may be in for a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n
Their holds may arrive faster depending on the book\u2019s location, explains Yarmouth library clerk Nick Cook.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other day, a patron came up with an interesting question,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
She had placed a hold on a book in the library\u2019s SamePage online catalogue that had many other people with holds ahead of her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cShe thought it would be years before she got this book,\u201d says Cook.<\/p>\n
She was overjoyed to learn her book was in just over a month after placing a hold on it.<\/p>\n
When she picked it up, she asked Cook why?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe priority is to keep the book in the region,\u201d Cook says.<\/p>\n
This means that if the book is part of a regional library\u2019s collection, members from that region will get that book before it is sent to another region.<\/p>\n
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Yarmouth library clerk Nick Cook points to the number of holds on the book The Women<\/strong> in the library\u2019s SamePage catalogue. A long list of holds may not be as bad as it seems.<\/h5>\n
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Library users waiting for their book or movie to arrive at their local library branch may be in for a pleasant surprise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their holds may arrive faster depending on the book\u2019s location, explains Yarmouth library clerk Nick Cook. \u201cThe other day, a patron came up with an interesting question,\u201d he says. She had placed a hold on a book in the library\u2019s SamePage online catalogue that had many other people with holds ahead of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYarmouth library clerk Nick Cook points to the number of holds on the book The Women in the library\u2019s SamePage catalogue. A long list of holds may not be as bad as it seems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe thought it would be years before she got this book,\u201d says Cook. She was overjoyed to learn her book was in just over a month after placing a hold on it. When she picked it up, she asked Cook why? \u201cThe priority is to keep the book in the region,\u201d Cook says. This means that if the book is part of a regional library\u2019s collection, members from that region will get that book before it is sent to another region. This is done to make the shared SamePage catalogue fair, efficient and functional. It also reduces expenses by saving time, and minimizing travel and shipping, Cook says. Cook admits, seeing the long list of holds may be daunting, but it may not be the whole story. \u201cIt is a bit difficult to know how long it will be before they receive their hold,\u201d he says. If the book or movie lists one of the 10 branches of Western Counties Regional Library as a location, the wait will probably not be as long.<\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[1751],"class_list":["post-10777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-reading"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 15:44:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10777"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11830,"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions\/11830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcrl.a.rkft.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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